Will our inept government ever learn to check what it is doing?
US
sends 14,000 draft notices to men born in 1800s
July 11th,
2014
Washington DC –
No, the United States isn’t trying to build a military force of centenarians.
It just seems
that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than
14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register
for the nation’s military draft and warning that failure to do so is
“punishable by a fine and imprisonment.”
The agency
realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last
week.
Chuck Huey, 73, of Kingston, said he got a
notice addressed to his late grandfather Bert Huey, a World War I veteran who
was born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100.
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