KING - B.B. KING UPSET HE DIDN'T SERVE IN WORLD WAR TWO

B.B. KING UPSET HE DIDN'T SERVE IN WORLD WAR TWO

B.B. KING regrets not serving his country in World War Two.
The guitar great was saved from full national service because he worked as a cotton picker in Mississippi at a time when plantation owners cut a deal with draft officials to keep their employees in the fields.
He tells Parade magazine, "We got only partial basic training, served a few months, and went back to work on the plantation.
"So, when I die, there won't be a flag on my coffin."
And King also regrets not taking his education more seriously.
Despite picking up honorary degrees from Yale and Brown universities, he says, "There's never a day goes by that I don't miss having graduated and gone to college."