[techtalk] career/family question

Tami Friedman tami at bronze.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Feb 16 07:36:15 EST 2000


Wow!  Thats the best bungle story I've heard from that era,and I was a
draft counsellor then!  

.Tami
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> Unfortunately gender does matter. In 1972 I received a draft notice to go to
> Viet Nam (lucky lottery winner...lol). Seems they misspelled my name. Being
> (obviously) female did not matter and I had to have a genetic work up done
> to prove that  I was indeed a  female. My birth certificate was not accepted
> either. So much for living in this mans' world.
> 
> Davida

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