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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