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Show D V DLOFGREN And, so, I wrote a letter to the draft board, and I said " ith r/or." I a1 t n h of these stupid, silly things- either/or." And they sent me a telegram back and ga m ntyfour hours. I was in Washington, D.C. I had all this equipment. I had to close up my labor you know, my desk, and my- twenty-four hours. So I sent them a telegram and said "I'm here with and he wasn't sitting there with me- I said, "I'm here with J. Edgar Hoover and it will take me a week to close things up and get back to Salt Lake. So I stopped in Ann Arbor where my sis was going to school, and I stopped here, and then I came to Salt Lake. And then I reported to Fort Douglas and was officially drafted. Hoover had given us- some of us had been taking special schooling. He had given us, those of us who were doing that, letters suggesting that we give them to the army that we be put in army intelligence because we had fingerprint experience, and we had radio experience, and this and that and the other. We got in there and the sergeant said, "Do any of you have letters, or anything, that you think we should be aware of?" And I took mine up. He looked at it and read it, and, "Humph, Hoover." He tore it up and threw it in the garbage. So I went into the infantry, the 84th infantry, as rail splitters. "For the convenience of the government" - a common phrase you may have heard before -but, anyway, for the convenience of the government they put out a program called ASTP, Army Specialized Training Program, in which you would go to a special school and become an officer, and with special skills. Well, I had a chance to go to Carnegie Tech, then the top engineering school in the country, to become an engineer. So I went back to Pittsburgh. And the people treated us wonderful. There were very few GI's. You know, this was when everybody's enthusiasm was just ballooning out for, "The military." |
