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If you cut his side burns off we will just die!

Three distressed Elvis fans write to the President

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Shaun Usher
Jul 01, 2022
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Elvis Presley receives a crew cut on his first full day as a member of the US Army. Photo: Getty.

On March 24th of 1958, on what was named “Black Monday” by many of his distraught followers, 22-year-old Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army. Worse still, he was to be stationed many miles away, in Germany, where he would stay until being discharge…

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