Selective Service Card, 1942
date: label: date made
content: 1942
notes: label: Description
content: The scope and brutality of the Civil War quickly challenged the military resources of the North and South. The Confederacy and the Union established general compulsory military service. Many considered the draft an infringement on their individual liberty. Critics charged class discrimination, as the North and South draft laws provided financial ways to avoid service. The debate over a military draft has continued ever since. Today all men are required to register for Selective Service at eighteen years of age. This card, issued April 27, 1942, registered Wilfred Hugh Pole Fairfield for the draft pool.
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Home Front Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Presidency
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3009.020
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3009.020
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Selective Service Card
label: Object Name
content: card
label: Object Name
content: card, registration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan, black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 6.35 cm x .635 cm