While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Korea, “champion[ing] liberty wherever the tyranny of communism is the aggressor,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Truman signs the Selective Service Act of 1951, lowering the age for military conscription (involuntary servitude) from 19 to 18½ years, and extending the minimum sentence for military peonage from 21 to 24 months.

       [restored 9/9/2022]

Subsequent Events:

5/15/1966                   5/8/1985

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 375.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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