Dan Coker in his Army uniform during World War II

ID: 1026 ~ Source: Judy Coker Benowitz ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: ca. 1944
This file appears in: Drafted into the Army
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ID: A white man looks seriously into the camera. He is wearing a U.S. Army cap.

This file appears in: Drafted into the Army

By Judy Coker Benowitz
"My dad entered the war in President Roosevelt’s first peacetime military draft. The family appealed to the draft board because he was the breadwinner of a family he cared for since age ten, but he shipped out. Dan was gone for…