Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "I was there when Heras Ra, a seventeen-year-old senior at Fairfax High, signed his final papers to enter the United States Marines Corps. Ra had considered college. "I saw all that application paperwork. I couldn't even figure it out. And $55 per application? No way." The night before his all-day induction exam, he was in the Hollywood recruiting office. The pressure was on. The Marines brought in a deal closer from the Culver City office and he had a final forceful message: don't do anything, say anything, admit anything that will keep you out of the Marines. "We're going to be very, very disappointed with you if you get disqualified tomorrow. We had a guy who was ready to go. Just like you. But when he faced the examiners he suddenly said he saw Jesus on his TV - a TV that wasn't even on. And Jesus told him not to enlist. We're going to be very, very disappointed if any crazy shit like that happens tomorrow."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Marine Corps Teenage boys--California--Los Angeles Uniforms--California--Los Angeles Recruiting and enlistment Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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