Attached herein are a few lines from The American Legion Weekly that reported to their veteran readership that the foreign-born men residing legally in the United States who were previously accused of shirking the 1917 draft were actually absolved from service and thus free to swear the oath of citizenship.

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Read Resident Aliens: Not Eligible for the 1917 Draft<br>(American Legion Weekly, 1923) for Free

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