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To: unclewest who wrote (103344)3/5/2005 11:14:27 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 793820
 
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Saturday, March 5, 2005

76-year-old receives Guard recruiting letter

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Bobb Kotterman laughed when he opened the letter inviting him to become a "force against terrorism." The letter, posted in January, urged the retiree to re-enlist in the National Guard, to fight to protect the American way of life.

Kotterman is 76.

He's a cancer survivor with diabetes and a bad eye. "Too old to chase girls anymore," he said yesterday.

He was discharged from the National Guard in 1949. He was only in 18 months. His job: running the movie projector. "I ran films about people getting gonorrhea and syphilis, that kind of stuff," Kotterman said.

It's not a skill in high demand in Iraq.

Even though recruiting pressure is heavy in the National Guard -- enlistments have fallen about 30 percent short of recruitment goals -- and 50- and 60-year-olds are among the call-ups, Kotterman recognized the letter and application form as a joke. The National Guard, he says, doesn't do blanket mailings. He reasons that someone sent in an inquiry with his name -- someone who wasn't a close friend. The first name on the letter was Willard, a birth name he has never used.
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