Too Light

People were joining up and going in the army and I decided I'd go along with the rest. But when I went to go in I . . . we didn't have a scales, so I didn't know how much I weighed, but I knew I was fairly thin, but I didn't realize I was 15 pounds underweight. And you had to weigh 120 pounds so that left me at the big weight of 105 pounds.

Interviewer: And you were about 18 years old then?

Yeah

Interviewer: 105 pounds! So what did you do to get your weight up?

I went home and I went on a regular eating binge, but I didn't realize it, but my trouble wasn't in what I was eating, it was I had bad tonsils. And that's what kept my weight down. So when I got in the army, after coaxing, he said, "Your still 5 pounds under weight." Well I said, "I went home from here and I put on 15 pounds like or 10 pounds make me up to 115." And well I said, "I want to go." I said. So he went and looked up and sure enough he found the chart that I had originally been checked over with and he said, "Your right, you did put on 10 pounds. So you want to go that bad? " I said, "Yes I do." So they let me in.