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Show Rose (1/25/83) page 14 enlist in the marines, and I believ~ that was Sunday, December the ?th. I guess I was about t~e 2nd or )rd that tried, and they turn-ed me down, I was 31 years of age and I was married so they turned me down. Then I got recruited by the coast guard ••• this is weird one, I can talk about it and I can tell you, but I can't prove it, but the story was that I got recruited for them and my job was \suoposed to go ashore on a naval landing and not fight in the sense that I had to fight the enemy, but I had to get prisoners. I was left to my own resources to get the prisoners. You're never going to believe this, I flunked my physical because I had hay fever. Now, you go figure that one out, but that's the truth so help me, Hanna. I flunked my physical for the coast guard1 at for what my function for the coast guard generally, and I got turned down. So, then I went to the navy, and when they learned I'd been rejected by the coast guard then the navy wouldn't even examine me. Then I went to my last resort, which was the army. I went to the ar~y, and again I was rejected - 'defective correct-able'. 5ut the defective correctable had nothing to do with hay fever. Mow this is the inconsistancy of the whole story, but I had a vari.cocele. I don't know if you know what a varicocele is, but I had a thickening of the veins in the scrotum. So, I went to my EJ.,\ own doctor, and it was t White, and it was that little consequen that he operated on me in his own office, he didn't even take me t the hospital. Then after about a week I went back, and damn if they didn't run me clear into March. Now, this was about 1n the beginning of January, and they run me clear into March before they finally took me into the service. It was March of '42. By that |
