Re: RARA-AVIS: Chandler in the army

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Dec 2003


Richard Moore wrote:
> I think his story of being turned down by the
> American army for poor eyesight was likely a polite
> fiction that closed off the need for any other
> explanation.

******************* I don't know anything about Chandler's involvement in the war, but I do know that Ernest Hemingway was rejected because of his eyesight. He served instead in the Italian Red Cross.

miker

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