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Tango0130 Jan 2021 10:38 p.m. PST

…Graduate Drafted into U.S. Army Early in Vietnam War

"In the fall of 1944, with a number of battles unfolding throughout Europe and the Pacific, Roger Dean Buchta quietly entered the world at a time when the turmoil of World War II consumed newspaper headlines in virtually every corner of the globe.

Born on his family's farm near the rural community of Lohman, Missouri, the newborn's inauspicious arrival was facilitated by a thirty-year-old Dr. Elbert Meredith Eberhart, a country physician originally from Pennsylvania who went on to practice medicine for decades from his office in the nearby town of Russellville…"
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Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse31 Jan 2021 9:06 a.m. PST

I have heard of other College Grads being drafted as well. But primarily those that were drafted did not have a college education. Especially as the war progressed …

And remember the US have troops all over world. So many drafted went to Europe, etc.

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