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1. Teenage Draft: Correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Hinson (Lancaster, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, September 11, 1942

Teenage Draft: Correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Hinson (Lancaster, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, September 11, 1942
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1942-09-11
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A letter from a South Carolinian to Senator Maybank concerning the change in the draft age to eighteen and nineteen. This citizen writes on behalf of his son, who works in order to help out his struggling family. He shares the anxiety his son had once he heard the possibility of being drafted at his young age. He suggests that the number of men who are older and don't contribute to their community be considered to be drafted first.

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