A day late, but ...
12 November 2011 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leethetBecause it was so cool to see other people's veteran dads (but it's a big pic so behind the cut)
The story goes that when war broke out my dad, who was in England and apparently enjoyed dual citizenship (U.S./U.K.), went into a British war office to sign up and said "I want to be a pilot." They basically said "Get real, son." So he said "Screw you" and went to the U.S. Army war office. They didn't let him be a pilot either. :-)
The photo was taken around 1941.
EDIT: I should add, my memory places the picture at 1941, but as it's a studio shot, it's not dated, and it seems to me pretty early for him to look so adult, now I think about it. He was in the army 'til the very early 50s, so in theory it could be that late, but I do think it was during the war.
The story goes that when war broke out my dad, who was in England and apparently enjoyed dual citizenship (U.S./U.K.), went into a British war office to sign up and said "I want to be a pilot." They basically said "Get real, son." So he said "Screw you" and went to the U.S. Army war office. They didn't let him be a pilot either. :-)
The photo was taken around 1941.
EDIT: I should add, my memory places the picture at 1941, but as it's a studio shot, it's not dated, and it seems to me pretty early for him to look so adult, now I think about it. He was in the army 'til the very early 50s, so in theory it could be that late, but I do think it was during the war.
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Date: 12 November 2011 08:31 pm (UTC)I don't actually know why he couldn't be a pilot - probably because, like most Englishmen of that time, he had left school at 14 to work, and didn't have the education.