Glenn Miller
Some recruits lie about their age, pretending to be older in order to join the draft. For Glenn Miller it was quite the opposite. The recruitment officers turned the 38 year-old away since they believed he was too old to draft. When his ingenious idea of leading the Army band was accepted, he quickly started travelling between bases and played music for the soldiers. The greatest mystery about him to this day is when Miller and the plane he was on, vanished while flying between England and France. He is still considered “MIA”.
Glenn Miller
Jack Kerouac
Before Jack Kerouac started writing as a profession, he wrote himself on the “sick list” only 8 days after joining the U.S. Navy in 1942 as a cadet. He was convincing enough for the Navy to discharge him on the grounds of suffering from a schizoid personality.
Jack Kerouac
