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How hard has anyone tried to get the yearbooks? I find it hard to believe that all 480 students and their families could possibly have closed ranks to protect someone who most of them didn't know and who's been dead for years. It's not just yearbooks that would have evidence but also the school newspaper, the local newspaper as well as area newspapers and if she was on a sports team there would be articles in the opposing teams’ papers. There's also friends’ personal photographs of school days. Sure, he's had mop up teams but he can't have locked down all those people. Last I heard, despite the current almighty one, this is still America and there's bound to be at least one person would be hollering up and down the streets if he was threatened by Big Brother.

Just like I don't believe it's even remotely possible that every original newspaper issue on the dates the birth announcement have vanished off the face of the earth. That's just not possible. Someone, somewhere has an original issue. Just because the HI newspaper office “claims” (or is that just another rumor) they don't have the back issues doesn't mean they don't. It may just mean they're being pricks and don't want to be bothered with a million requests.

That's not saying I don't also believe there's some very funny stuff going on with Hussein's records, because there is but until I personally can put my hand on a document, verify for myself where it came from and get it authenticated, then I'm not believing much of what's on the internet. Grain of salt or rather with this guy a 3 pound sack of salt. Even if a document is authenticated, it still doesn't prove that the information on it is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - if granny gave the info for the bc to get him an American citizenship.

[David]

How hard has anyone tried to get the yearbooks? I find it hard to believe that all 480 students and their families could possibly have closed ranks to protect someone who most of them didn't know and who's been dead for years. It's not just yearbooks that would have evidence but also the school newspaper, the local newspaper as well as area newspapers and if she was on a sports team there would be articles in the opposing teams’ papers. There's also friends’ personal photographs of school days. Sure, he's had mop up teams but he can't have locked down all those people. Last I heard, despite the current almighty one, this is still America and there's bound to be at least one person would be hollering up and down the streets if he was threatened by Big Brother.

That's not the problem with that kind of documentation.

The issue is that for fifty years ago, the number of people who have an interest in preservation of that kind of stuff is small. The school, if it still exists, got one or two copies in its library (I recognize it is said they had four or five here); they got borrowed out; the person who took it out used it twenty-five years ago for the purpose for which they took it; failed to return it; and their kids threw it away when they died.

The people who were there? I don't know how old you are or what the character of classbooks was where you went to school but do you have yours? My sister is now (52 years later) the primary mover and keeper of the records for her high school class; she knows where there are two annuals from her graduation year; none for mine.

In looking at the list for my own reunion, just the mailing list which was about two-thirds of the class; I didn't even recognize half the names under circumstances where I thought I knew most of the people in the school when I was there.

For most of us, the primary events of our lives occurred after we left high school; that is the period of our personal focus. So coming back with a story about someone who was there doesn't have a particular ring of credibility.