Those who don’t know history …

… will make the family look dumb in an obituary.

“(The deceased) was born March 10, 1941 …”

“(The deceased) was a veteran of the US Army and fought in the Korean War.”

Well, I guess the family won’t look any dumber than the funeral home person who filed the obituary form and certainly no dumber than the newspaper (Texarkana Gazette) that ran the obituary. And most of the reading public won’t know the Army accepted a 9 or 10 or 11-year-old recruit.