The draft ended at the end f the late unpleasantness and was not reinstituted until the Great War, and only then was used only sporadically, if I remember what I learned in college correctly.

The next draft was enacted just prior to the US's entry into WW II and did not include a deferement by finding a substitute. I'm pretty certain there wasn't anything similar during WW I.

Parenthetically, my father claimed that he was among the ten oldest men drafted during WW II. He was called to service March 24 or 25, 1942, just three or four days before his fortieth birthday.


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