Grandpa Peay's Little Black V8 Log Book

(Updated 15 July 2021) My beautiful wife Margaret (née Oxborrow) loves the many heirlooms she has received from her family; the 19 century wrought iron beds, the chest of drawers made of materials salvaged from dynamite mining crates, the century old books. Many of her brothers and sisters share that passion. When my mother, (née Charlene Rudell Carlson) no longer had room for an heirloom vanity handed down to her from Grandma (née Eulala Clark) Peay, Margaret was a natural choice to get it.

One day, our daughter, Bailee, crawled beneath that vanity, likely with a screwdriver in hand, hoping to disassemble one more thing. (She had already loosened the bolts holding our “farm house” kitchen table together along with every screw in the house she could reach). Beneath the vanity, wedged in an area above one of the drawers was an interesting find. Had the vanity not been in use, had my “Curious George” daughter not been searching every nook and cranny, and had, as usual, every drawer she could find not been pulled open, her discovery may have gone unnoticed to this day. 


The vanity sat with several other turn-of-the-century pieces that served as our bedroom set for years and, when we moved east for work, the vanity eventually landed in Madison’s bedroom on the second floor of a farm house in which we lived, in Damascus, Montgomery County, Maryland. As for Bailee’s find, that is the real story. 

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2-B or not 2-B, the Selective Service Notice of Classification

It's late 1940; Harold Peay is 31 years old with a wife and three young boys.  Eight tenuous years of FDR and the New Deal trying to pull the economy out the Great Depression has resulted in massive government debt.  The United States enacts conscription in September of 1940.  The Federal Government is requiring that every male between the ages of 21 and 36 serve in the armed forces for at least 12 months.

Think about that; every male ― 21 to 36 ― required to join the military for at least 12 months.