July 31, birthdays for J.K. Rowling, Wesley Snipes, Rico Rodriguez
Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY IN 1917, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Go to War, Kill Men and Be Killed? No! Is Wail of Slackers.”
The article focused on 150 men with brides-to-be waiting at Borough Hall for marriage licenses.
“Unashamed of their fears of being drafted for war…youths of draft age… stood for hours in the stifling heat… today, waiting for marriage licenses and immediate marriages that they believed would give them mandatory exemption at the hands of the local draft boards,” the Eagle reported.
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