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Fugitive from the law of averages

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Fugitive from the law of averages

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Bill Murphy Jr.
Jul 16, 2021
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Fugitive from the law of averages

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He’d been turned down before by the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps for being too young.

But, now, a few days after his 17th birthday, armed with a newly doctored birth certificate that suggested he was a year older, the son of a Texas sharecropper walked into a recruiting office and enlisted as a private.

Not long ago, I wrote in this newsletter about one …

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