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4 SEPTEMBER
8. 2006
e
THE COLUMBIA STAR S C
I want to let you know
about a very serious situa-
tion that is taking place in
South Carolina. This is most
important if you have young
children or grandchildren,
or know someone with a
child who is now or is
approaching 15 years of age.
It is only now affecting
young men but may well
spread to .gifts as well.
This happened to me
this weekend when I took
my son to the DMV to test
for his beginners' driving
permit. He had turned 15 a
few months ago, but we just
had time this weekend to go
to take the test. He had
studied and was excited
about this important event.
After standing in line, filling
out the paperwork, and pre-
senting about five different
forms of identification, we
were finally called to the
window. The young lady
there was very helpful,
checked all our information
and prepared the test.
It was then she asked:
"Have you filled out a
Selective Service Form?"
Shocked by this I explained
my son was only 15 years
old, and we would think
about that when he turned
18. She said, "No, this is
mandatory in South
Carolina. To get a permit or
a license you must first reg-
ister with Selective Service."
And there it was on the
form. Even worse---it
applied to young men
13-17!
For those of you who
don't know, registering with
Selective Service registers
you to be drafted. And just
because we don't have an
active draft today does not
mean we will lOt have one
soon. It is my opinion that
the return of the draft is
coming very soon. The draft
is very different from volun-
tarily enlisting in the mili-
tary. In the draft you have to
go whether you are ready,
willing or able or not
I was outraged! I
demanded to see exactly
what law allowed them to
enlist a child in the draft.
She said she would get the
manager and in the mean
time he could go on with his
test.
After about 10 min-
utes, the manager appeared.
She had a copy of SC
56-1-125, a law that
seemed, at first, to indicate
this was mandatory. Further,
she said she had called her
state supervisor and the
DMV helpline and they con-
firmed that no male could
get a permit, ID, or license
unless they registered for
the draft. I told her in no
uncertain terms that I was
not registering my
15-year-old son for the draft
and that this violated
Federal Law. She said then
that we would just cancel
his test on the computer, or
I could go into the testing
room and stop him. I said
no, let him finish the test,
and then we would make a
decision. In the mean time,
dazed as I was, I made some
calls to confirm this was in
the S.C. law and to read it
top to bottom.
And there it was--in
the last paragraph--almost
hidden after all the language
that would make you think
that a child had to register
.for the draft to get any kind
oflD from the state of South
Carolina : "The applicant,
parent of guardian may
decline the Selective Service
System registration. If the
applicant parent or
guardian declines Selective
System registration, the
department may issue a
license or identification
card, but the applicant must
renew the license or identifi-
cation card upon attaining
eighteen years of age."
So we were right back
where we started, except
that I had been lied to.
Thousands of others that
day had been lied to.
Registering for the
Selective Service is, unfortu-
nately, the law. But not until
age 18. This is a decision
that a young man must
make for himself, after long
and somber reflection, when
he turns 18. This is not a
decision to be made lightly,
without time to think, when
a child is 15 and excited
about getting his driving
permit. Each person needs
to make this decision based
on their personal con-
science, their own situation
and the circumstances of
the time--when they turn
18.
I am contacting every-
one I know to make them
aware that this practice is
taking place. Schools and
Vl'Os must be notified. I am
also contacting all my legis-
lators and elected represen-
tatives to try to get it
repealed--or at the very
least, make it mandatory
that applicants be informed
that this is optional, not
mandatory. I hope you will
do the same.
Nothing on the DMV
website let's you know that
their is an opt-out provision.
This all leads you to believe
it is mandatory, www.scd-
mvonline.com/DMVNew/de
fault.aspx?n=general driv-
er license information#Sele
ctiveService
Here is the section of
lawz.ww .scstatehouse, net/c
ode/t56c001.htm. See sec-
tion 125
Clayton Ingrain
cingram 116 l@sc.rr.com
ditor's note." This leg-
ter from a friettd in Israel
was con buwd by a reader.
As this war continues,
I am the first to admit that
we have our good days and
our bad days. About an hour
ago 10 Israelis were killed in
a Katyusha attack up north.
Friday the new rockets fell
about 112 mile from my
home. Many people we
know are fighting up north.
There are 300,000 people
who have been relocated
from the north and
1,000,000 people whose lives
have been affected by the
rockets. Times are not per-
fect, but they are far from
disastrous. It is hard for
someone who is not Israeli
to understand what is going
on in our heads.
On one of my tours, a
woman asked, "Why don't
the Israelis donate any-
thing?" I do challenge that
person to come to Israel
today and she will see:
,the TV running a text:
about people in the south
and center of Israel inviting
families from the north to
move in with them.
a company in the
south inviting his competi-
tor, whose factory was
destroyed by a Katyusha, to
come and use his factory
from 7 pm to 7am so his
competitor won't go broke.
a hotel in Be'er
Sheva, (and I will give him a
freebee plug,) Golden Tulip
operated by Fatal, opening
their 300-room hotel for
families from the north to
stay at the hotel's expense
for a week's reprieve from
the Katyusha attacks.
people from the
south, teenagers, moving up
to Nahariya, Ma'alot, and
other places to organize
activities in the shelters.
individuals and
groups collecting food and
toys.
boxes at supermar-
kets for food collection.
There're just too many
activities going on to men-
tion. Search on Google. You
will find the sites.
We got a call on
Friday from our neighbor,
Irit the Home Front
Command was asking peo-
ple for cakes for Shabbat for
the soldiers in the north.
Could we do some baking?
Our neighbor Vered's
son, Ori, back from the
fighting in Lebanon - I can't
tell you what he was doing -
went back last night. His
parents drove him to the
front not a 12-hour flight,
not a five-hour drive but a
one-hour drive from home.
Where else do parents take
their kids back to their unit
and Watch him load up and
drive into Lebanon?
Thi is our strength,
the strength of the individu-
als living here, the strength
of the people supporting
their army, the army that's
made up of our neighbors,
our families.
Aryeh, my son, and I
drove up to visit my
nephew, Gilad. He is now
stationed near a small,
Israeli moshav. We brought
him some homemade
chocolate chip cookies,
baked by my daughter,
Eliraz. He laughed when he
saw them. His unit is loaded
with food and goodies from
families, friends, and passer-
bys.
His little unit has been
adopted by the moshav near
them. The people from the
moshav came up the hill
before Shabbat and brought
"their/our~your" soldiers
food and food and food.
They have opened their
houses to Gilad's unit. They
drive up and down the hill
and take tile soldiers to have
a shower in their homes.
They don't have guest
rooms, cabanas, or whatev-
er. Their houses are small
and simple, but they have a
heart and they drag the guys
into their houses and hand
them a towel and soap and
then drive them back up the
hill afterwards. These peo-
ple on the moshav are our
strength. These soldiers are
our hope.
We are going to see
some very hard days. We are
going to experience some
worse days, but we don't
despair. We are too much in
love with our little slice of
land to ever allow despair to
creep into our lives.
Jeff Katz, a friend of a
reader living in Israel
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ACROSS
1. Paparazzo's
wares
5. Utah ski spot
9. Clock innards
14. Colorful horse
15. Have in mind
16. Not rented
17. Calvary letters
18. Pitcher's boo-boo
19. Beethoven dedicatee
20. Birds with yellow plumage
23. Old hand
24. County center
25. Sonnet parts
27. Mauna
29. Channel-changer, once 32.
Ram's ma'am
33. Joute fractions
35. Big Apple
award 37. Hard to haul 41.
Light-headed
ones?
44. Mortise mate
45. The O Haras home
46. Days gone by
47. " got it!"
49. Cries hard
51. Long-snouted fish
52. Kind of battery 56. Sharer's
word
58. Dawn Chong
59. Yuletide tune
64. "Halt!" to a salt
66. Staff member
67. Via Veneto car
68. Basil-based
sauce
69. Golda of Israel
70.Sidi (Moroccan
seaport)
71. Compound in ale
72. Fruity coolers
73. Saline drop
DOWN
1. Bluenose
2. PrefLx with sphere
3. "Cosmos" host
4. Rudely sarcastic
5. Quality of the upwardly
mobile
6. Like good pastrami
Baby's powder
8. Hippies' crosses
9. Secret admirer's signoff,
maybe
10. Like a pvt. or
Cpl.
11. Kicking Os companion
12. Put back to 000, say
13. Undoes a dele
21. Pogs, e.g.
22. Shoe width
26. Itsy-bitsy
27. Held on to
28. Creator of Perry and Delia
30. Border on
31. Succotash
beans
34. Stiff-upper-lip
type
36. River of Spain
38. Totally
miserable existence
39. Miles of "Psycho"
40. River of Belgium
42. Stockholder
43. Pick and shovel
wielders
48. Yalie
50. Undersea
prowler
52. Hang loosely
53. Four-star reviews
54. Brewer's need
55. Nash"s two-I beast
57. Equip anew
60. Contended
61. Emmy winner Faico
62. Smallv'die's Lang
63. Chef's direction
65. Sault Marie
Answers for last week's
puzzle on page 7