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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9076)12/20/2000 1:42:17 PM
From: long-gone   of 10042
 
<<Actually, that age is incorrect. The average age of GI in WWII was in the mid-20s as I recall.>>

True, but the official averages can't include accurately the many that lied so as to get into the service early. Remember that while the nation was, in official sense, out of the depression there were many parts of the nation that lagged in recovery.
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