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- My father received a DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) from the University of Louisville not a DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery). Only Louisville and Harvard have DMD's. He was always very proud of this.
My father, along with many in his dental class, were commissioned as Second
Lieutenants in 1942 while still in dental school, placed on inactive status,
classes were speeded up (six days a week) and in 1943 promoted to First
Lieutenant upon graduation and placed on active duty. At the end of the war
he was a captain. They asked him to join the reserves with the rank of
Major. He refused and thus avoided being called up for the Korean conflict
(war). At the out break of WWII there were 250 dentists in the service of
Uncle Sam. By the end of the war more than 25,000 were serving their
country. The vast majority (around 95%) of young men entering the service
during WWII had never seen a dentist prior to basic training. We probably
could have killed all the Japs and Germans with halitosis!
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1917 - 2004 (86 years)
