The same thread came up on the beta forums from another person in the military.

"Yoshi give me legacy status, I wasn't able to pay for the game because i'm in the Army"


If you're not there, and you don't earn it, you simply DON'T GET IT.

It's along the same lines of; "I know I wasn't at school, or did any of the homework, but uh...can I get an A+ please I had to clip my dogs toe-nails!"

(I can understand your frustration, but this would just simply never happen)