His son enlisted in the Marine Corps on the same day.
Our sons and grandsons are not enlisting.
Soon, all three sons enlist; the youngest is only seventeen, but gets his mother's reluctant consent to join the Army Reserve.
With the coming of World War 1, their sons (one under age) enlist in the army to relieve their parents of the burden.
The son of Lanny's English friend Rick enlists in the Republican cause.
Those whose sons and daughters enlist, as did Sergeant Johnson, are rarer still.
A third son, William Hemings, enlisted in the regular Union Army as a white man.
Eston's sons also enlisted in the Union Army, both as white men, as that was the community they had been living in.
Mrs. Lipscomb said she was thankful when her son had first enlisted.
When a news reporter interviews him, he insists his son will enlist.