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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
1942-06-25 Joseph Evans to John Evans Page 2
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commission in either the Army or the Navy and waive a handicap such as mine. I can't be commissioned in the Army, though, because I am too young (30 is the minimum age under such circumstances), but I am pretty sure I could be an Ensign in the Navy - assigned to administrative work here in Washington. This leaves me in a terrible quandary: I want to get into the war in some more immediate way then I now am, but I hate to give up any job - not because of the money, because I would make as much or more as an Ensign - but because it would leave Mr. Hathaway in something of a lunch. That is so say, I accepted this job more or less on the understanding that I would keep it until I was drafted; besides the turnover in our office since I've been there has been terrific: one after another my colleagues have left to go into one or another of the armed forces, and replacements are not so easy to find. Well, I'm not going to do anything about it for a while, but there is another side to the question too: I don't know when I'm going to be drafted, and if I wait until I am, I know I won't be very much pleased with the realization that I could have been a commissioned officer in the Navy instead of a private in the Army - I mean, that's only human. And it isn't that I would be avoiding active duty by accepting a commission,
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commission in either the Army or the Navy and waive a handicap such as mine. I can't be commissioned in the Army, though, because I am too young (30 is the minimum age under such circumstances), but I am pretty sure I could be an Ensign in the Navy - assigned to administrative work here in Washington. This leaves me in a terrible quandary: I want to get into the war in some more immediate way then I now am, but I hate to give up any job - not because of the money, because I would make as much or more as an Ensign - but because it would leave Mr. Hathaway in something of a lunch. That is so say, I accepted this job more or less on the understanding that I would keep it until I was drafted; besides the turnover in our office since I've been there has been terrific: one after another my colleagues have left to go into one or another of the armed forces, and replacements are not so easy to find. Well, I'm not going to do anything about it for a while, but there is another side to the question too: I don't know when I'm going to be drafted, and if I wait until I am, I know I won't be very much pleased with the realization that I could have been a commissioned officer in the Navy instead of a private in the Army - I mean, that's only human. And it isn't that I would be avoiding active duty by accepting a commission,
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