Today is Veterans's Day, and in honor of this I am featuring a photograph taken of my father Nelson back when he was in the army during World War II. My father was a dentist and in his mid-thirties when he was drafted, and so it came as a bit of a shock. His friend Ed was at our house ( I say "our" house but this was years before I was born) when my father received his telegram from Uncle Sam, and thought it was really funny. Then Ed went home and found a telegram waiting for him, too. Ed wound up going to Paris, while my father was sent to battle teeth and typhoons in a tent on Okinawa. The famous Hoyt luck strikes again.
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