Neville Goddard serves in the U.S. Army and is discharged
Neville was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 38 in late 1942 and, per his own 1972 lecture account, was honorably discharged after only a few weeks of training around March 1943, receiving full U.S. citizenship as a result.
Person: Neville Goddard
Source document node:2219 transcribes a 26 June 1943 military-service statement identifying Neville L. Goddard as a private in the Medical Detachment, 4011th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, discharged for the convenience of the Government because he was over 38 and to accept essential-war-industry employment. The page is a secondary transcription, not the statement image.
Date (happened)
between 12 November 1942 and March 1943
unresolved
between 12 November 1942 and March 1943
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 009): bound with no source: written as estimated with the reader's reasoning
Reasoning
Matches the independently anchored induction (event 20363, 1942-11-12) and discharge (event 6180, March 1943); also matches Wikipedia's 'From November to March' and passage 544236's own 'about four months' service length.
between November 1942 and 1942
stated
before 19 July 1971
bound
Reasoning
P544236 is retrospective personal testimony; non-preferred before-bound from lecture nid 1783.
12 November 1942
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 552625 narrates 'When I was drafted, and we as a country were at war' with no date of its own, followed by the same discharge-nine-days-later story that anchors the corpus's Army-discharge fact (March 1943, passage 528488). This is almost certainly the same induction the corpus already anchors at 823 (1942-11-12); per the brief, Army-derived claims are capped at probable because the anchor itself is Neville's own recollection, not a record.
c. November 1942
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The passage narrates an exchange at the moment 'I was drafted into the army' but gives no date of its own; the corpus's own anchor for his Army enlistment places that event at 1942-11-12, probable, so the draft/induction is placed circa that month, inheriting the anchor's probable ceiling since it is his own recollection rather than a record.
1945
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 009): That passage's 'the year was 1945' dates the family's sailing to Barbados (New Year's Eve 1945, matching events 7904/7907/19305), not the Army service recounted as background in the same breath.
Told / reported
24 March 1972
stated · probable · preferred
-
29 March 1968
estimated
Reasoning
The recounting occurred during this lecture, whose delivery date is certain from independent chrome corroboration; deriving the calendar date from the node rather than a direct passage date-quote makes this estimated rather than stated.
Sources
Source
- Neville Goddard Wikipedia ¶7 (From November to March, Neville serves in the military before returning home)
- Imagination Plus Faith ¶9 (I was in the Army for a very short span of time, about four months. Because of my age plus this law, I was honorably discharged because I was over 38. My son was in the Marines in Guadalcanal, but my little girl was only a matter of months in age.)
- Goddards Military Records (Transcribed service statement identifies private, Medical Detachment, 4011th Armored Field Artillery Battalion.)