Talk:Daniel Seeger

Year of Birth
"He was originally classified 1-A in 1953 by his local board,..." per [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=380&page=163 the Sup. Ct.] decision. He presumably should have registered with Selective Service at age 17, and gotten his first classification soon after. I'd guess 1934 is a little more likely than 1935. --Jerzy•t 19:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Not age 17, but 18 at the earliest ( (p. 2)). Maybe one could enlist at 17, but that's not registration. In the late 1960s and maybe earlier, it was on the 18th birthday or within 5 days thereafter, and, if his first classification of any kind was within two months of registration and was in 1953, that would put his year of birth at 1935 or within a couple of months of that year. I don't know how long it took to issue to almost anyone the first classification, but the Selective Service System was likely motivated to initially classify quickly, because that's how military planners would know how many eligible people could be considered. So, if we don't have a source, I'd go with ca. 1935. On the other hand, I think the order of inductions was oldest first before it was changed to youngest first; I don't know what the order was in the years in question here (you might need old Code of Federal Regulations volumes or newspaper reports for that). If it was oldest first then, initial classifications may well have been allowed to take longer and, if so, Seeger's 18th birthday may have been earlier. Perhaps we could state a plausible range of years, but that would (and the present entry does) constitute original research not permitted in Wikipedia, so I'm going to delete what's there now. (Yes, I know it's been almost 134 months since the above post, but that doesn't matter.) Nick Levinson (talk) 01:32, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Publications
Deserves a bibliography section. --Jerzy•t 19:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)