To: jumpseater
Actually it was a continuation of the original lie I told to get into the Ohio State Guard. I lied about my age to get into the State Guard, which was the state militia, that took over when the National Guard was federalized. I had been in the State Guard for almost two years before the war ended and the National Guard was de federalized and I was given the opportunity to join. At fifteen I was guarding Italian war prisoners at Camp Perry. Actually the biggest lie was that I never told myparents of my involvement. I even tried to join the RCAF but I was two days late as they had stopped taking Americans for flight training.
The Ohio National Guard simply accepted my paperwork from the State Guard and I stayed in until I reached my seventeenth birthday at which time I joined the Coast Guard.
