Teenage Draft: Correspondence between M. C. Glenn (Anderson, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, October 23, 1942
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Title:
Teenage Draft: Correspondence between M. C. Glenn (Anderson, S.C.) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, October 23, 1942
Date:
1942
Creator (Personal):
Glenn, M. C.
Description:
A letter from a South Carolinian to Senator Maybank concerning the change in the draft age to eighteen and nineteen. The citizen wants the Senator to consider taking the boys after they've completed college and their commissions obtained. A response from Maybank is included, stating he appreciates the letter but no one will be exempt from draft. He gives the average age of members of the Navy and Marine Corps, which is between seventeen and nineteen, demonstrating that many young men already want to join the service.
