It is never too late to serve your country. Or is it?
Cnet.com:
The Y2K apocalypse may be hitting 14 and a half years late. And, a small town in Pennsylvania appears to be getting the first blow with demands for 14,215 deceased men to join the country's military draft.
A glitch in the Selective Service System sent out letters to the families of thousands of Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, according to the Associated Press. The letters ordered the men to register to join the US military or face a "fine and imprisonment."
That's a hard thing to do considering these men are no longer alive.
One of the people to get a letter was Chuck Huey, 73. The notice was addressed to Huey's late grandfather Bert Huey, who was a World War I veteran born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100, according to the Associated Press.(read full article)
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