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Sylvester T Thorpe Jr 1938 - 2011

Sylvester T Thorpe Jr of Suffolk, Suffolk City County, VA was born on April 19, 1938, and died at age 73 years old on June 11, 2011. Sylvester Thorpe was buried at Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery Section 4 Row 34 Site 10 5310 Milners Road, in Suffolk.
Sylvester T Thorpe Jr
Suffolk, Suffolk City County, VA 23434
April 19, 1938
June 11, 2011
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  • 04/19
    1938

    Birthday

    April 19, 1938
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC
  • 06/11
    2011

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    June 11, 2011
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    Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery Section 4 Row 34 Site 10 5310 Milners Road, in Suffolk, Va 23434
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In 1938, in the year that Sylvester T Thorpe Jr was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1940, at the age of merely 2 years old, Sylvester was alive when on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.
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