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Isaac F. Bashor file P.P.F.200 Rt. 1 Box 21297 11-2 Waterford, California Thessage to 10/23/45 Congress (Paye)(1) Hon. Harry S. Fuman B Waterford California Oct 29, 1945 Dear mr. President:- Dear Sir: I was very much disappointed on last Tuesday when in your message you advocated compulsory military Training for our youth between the ages of 17 and 20 of at least our year. out of school at the crucial time when In the first place if takes the boys they have a rather hard tenil of determing whether to go our with a College education or dropping out of school and go to work. In this years time the most of the boys will probably loose all interest in behool. In the second place of not least by any means is the fact that we gant the soldiers who gave their lifes in fighting the last was they were going to do away with militarism do in Germany Japan what you suppose these boys would say they gave their lines was advocating the if they found that the nation for which very thing for which they died.