Teenage Draft / Collection: Senator Burnet R. Maybank Papers, 1914-1973 / Subject (Topic): Drafts--United States, World War II, 1939-1945 - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

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1. Teenage Draft: A Letter from Stanley W. Crews (Greenville, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, October 19, 1942

Teenage Draft: A Letter from Stanley W. Crews (Greenville, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, October 19, 1942

Date:: 1942
Description:: A letter from a South Carolinian to Senator Maybank concerning Maybank's consideration of a bill to exempt boys of eighteen and nineteen years old who are currently attending college from being drafted. The writer believes this is unfair to the young men who aren't in college and that all college boys should go to war; their education being used most effectively in the war.