<P> Archie is a World War II veteran who had been based in Foggia, Italy for 22 months . During a doctor's appointment it is stated that Archie had an undistinguished military record for his non-combat ground role in the Air Corps, later called the Army Air Forces, which at the time was a branch of the United States Army . Archie often insisted that he was a member of the Air Corps . He received the Good Conduct Medal, and in the All in the Family episode "Archie's Civil Rights", it is disclosed he also received the Purple Heart for being hit in his buttocks by shrapnel . </P> <P> He married Edith Bunker 22 years before the first season . Later recollections of their mid-1940s courtship do not result in a consistent timeline . On the flashback episode showing Mike and Gloria's wedding, Archie indicates to Mike that his courtship of Edith lasted two years and hints that their relationship was not consummated until a month after their wedding night . Edith elsewhere recollects that Archie fell asleep on their wedding night and blurts out that their sex life has not been very active in recent years . On another occasion, Edith reveals Archie's history of gambling addiction, which caused problems in the early years of their marriage . Archie also reveals that when Edith was in labor with Gloria, he took her to Bayside Hospital on the Q5 bus because "the subway don't run to Bayside". </P> <P> According to Edith, Archie's resentment of Mike stemmed primarily from the fact that Mike was attending college, while Archie had been forced to drop out of high school during the Great Depression to help support his family . Archie does not take advantage of the GI Bill to further his education, although he does attend night school to earn a high school diploma in 1973 . Archie is also revealed to have been an outstanding baseball player in his youth: his dream was to pitch for the New York Yankees . He had to give up this dream when he left high school to enter the workforce . His uncle got him a job on a loading dock after World War II, and by the 1970s he was a foreman . </P> <P> A Protestant, Archie seldom attends church, despite professing strong Christian views . The original pilot mentions that in the 22 years Archie and Edith were married, Archie had only attended church seven times (including their wedding day) and that Archie had walked out of the sermon the most recent time, disgusted with the preacher's message (which he perceived as leftist). Archie's religiosity often translates into knee - jerk opposition to atheism or agnosticism (which Mike and Gloria variously espoused), Catholicism (despite Carroll O'Connor being a devout Catholic), and, until late in the series, Judaism . </P>

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