The Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to do so is ''punishable by a fine and imprisonment.''
The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last week.
The glitch originated with the state Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. A clerk failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 — and for those born a century earlier, spokeswoman Jan McKnight said Thursday.
Families of those men who received the notices can simply ignore them, officials said.