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8. And your point

Reply to KS Toronado (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 17, 2021, 12:44 PM

Nov 2021

is?

How times have changed: WW2 my 17 year old cousin was rejected for service because he was color blind. He enlisted in the Sea Bees and spent the war in the Pacific stringing communication lines while the Japanese shot at him.

Never spoke of it until he was 90 years old.

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