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Finally, A Real Y2k Problem!

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 | It just seems that way after the Selective Service System
 | mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania
 | men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register
 | for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to
 | do so is "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."
 | 
 | The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls
 | from bewildered relatives last week.
 | 
 | Chuck Huey, 73, of Kingston, said he got a notice addressed
 | to his late grandfather Bert Huey, a World War I veteran
 | who was born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100.
 | ...
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/men-get-draft-notices-100-years-after-the-fact/2014/07/10/dffac3c2-083d-11e4-8615-4eddc1f1cffa_story.html>

    --bks

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Finally, A Real Y2k Problem! bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2014-07-11 09:45 -0400
  Re: Finally, A Real Y2k Problem! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2014-07-11 15:15 +0000
  Re: Finally, A Real Y2k Problem! Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley@att.net> - 2014-07-12 03:04 -0500

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