An EIGHTY-FOUR year old was asked to re-enlist.-luckily it was a 'mistake'

[Hell in a Handbasket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=2270&e=10&u=/krwashbureau/20050215/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_armydentist_wa_1

WASHINGTON - The last time Dr. Floyd Baker served in the U.S. Army, Harry S. Truman was president, Dinah Shore's "Buttons and Bows" topped the music charts, "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" won an Oscar and the bikini made its debut on American beaches.

So the 84-year-old semi-retired dentist from Philadelphia was a little surprised last August when he got a letter from a local Army recruiting station inviting him to re-enlist.


A spokesman for the Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox said Baker's letter probably had resulted from someone not checking ages along with names from recruiting efforts or the mass-mailing lists the Army buys from marketing firms....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh my God! I hope the poor guy didn't

have a heart attack...or suffer some other unfortunate consequence.

[Sugarbleus]

2. I heard this story on KGO last evening...

Simply AMAZING!!

?????--->"mass-mailing lists the Army buys from marketing firms"....WTH?