[donozark]

Even though NPRC may say,"Records destroyed," they may in fact, not have been totally destroyed. Several years ago I requested copies of a loved ones 201 file. A WW-2 vet. Keep in mind files from that era, and later ones as well, were basically brown heavy folders with metal clasps holding the pages in somewhat chronological order. The folders were stacked (read:packed) on shelves.

The fire had burned the outer edges of the documents (in my loved ones 201 file) and some of the top pages but most were viewable in part.

Visualize dropping a package of copier paper in a fire. Then remove it. Outer edges destroyed and some top/bottom pages. But not all. And that is my point. There may be some pages viewable, even after NPRC claims "destroyed."

[Gaffer]

I understand. However the point is being missed here. This isn’t about a fire in 1973 - not at all, especially for records from WWII. There are so, so many other repositories where information of this type are stored. Unit records, websites, national archives and the like.

This is about the VA misusing the fact of a 1973 fire to cover up their unwillingness to do their damned job.