Walt Disney was too young to enlist like his older brothers, so he altered his own birth certificate to make himself eligible to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross in France. At the time, you only had to be seventeen for ambulance service, whereas you had to be eighteen for military service. Walt missed shipping out with his unit because he became very ill as the worldwide flu pandemic raged.[10] He was so sick that the doctors at the ambulance driver training program said that if he had any hope of making it, he needed to go home, because if he stayed with all the other sick people, he
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