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AI: Well, and then, eventually, then Memorial Day came and you went home. Now, afterwards, may I ask, afterwards, did you ever get any trouble or harassment for having resisted the draft?

JY: No, 'cause when I got home I have to be registered, right, changing of address. And then draft board called me up again, so I went for pre-induction physical. I had to go to pre-induction physical, and they says, "Well, will you be called within a month," so I waited 'bout three months, nothing happened. So I called my draft board and says, "Well, I guess I don't have to go in the army." He says, "Well, you have to come back for rephysical." Every three months come back for rephysical, so I went back second time. And twenty-sixth birthday, then you're over the draft age. Up to twenty-sixth birthday, you're still liable for draft. So I called the draft board second time -- and I was in Los Angeles then, second time around -- and says, "Well, there's enough volunteers right now to fill the quota because the..." Bill of Rights, the Veteran's Bill of Rights they used to call it, that you have this chance to go to school. If you join the army you can go to school for so many years, this and that; so everybody taking advantage. The war is over, just want to join the army, then you get this free schooling. So it was enough volunteers so the quota is being filled every month, so I didn't have to go. So I turned twenty-six so my draft status was over.

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