Shortly after being drafted into the army, where he was a private at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Elvis was granted an emergency leave for what reason?
Answer His mother was ill.
Elvis was extremely close to his mother, and when he got word she was gravely ill with hepatitis, he was granted leave to be with her. Two days after his arrival, she died from heart failure, a devastating blow to the 23-year-old, who tried to throw himself into her open grave. Soon after her burial at Graceland, he returned to the army to finish basic training.
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