Drafted into the Army in November 1942 and sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana, Neville applied for discharge and was refused by his colonel; he then slept each night imagining himself back in his Washington Square apartment with his wife and baby daughter, saw in a 4 a.m. vision a hand strike out 'disapproved' and write 'Approved' while a voice said to do nothing, and nine days later the same colonel called him in and told him to submit a new application, on which he was honorably discharged - and his 13 weeks' training earned him his American citizenship.
Date (happened)
between 19 November 1942 and March 1943
unresolved
- between 19 November 1942 and March 1943
- 12 November 1942
Place
Told / reported
- 2 April 1971
Sources
Source
- The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶7 (At 4:00 o’clock in the morning, here comes a sheet of paper before my eyes and a hand from here down indicating, with a pen in its hand; and the pen scratched out the word “disapproved,” and it wrote in, in a bold script, “Approved.” And then I heard the…)
- Goddards Military Records (Transcribed statement dates induction at New York to November 12, 1942 and names Camp Polk.)