[capacommie]

Do you have any more to add?

[wiggen]

The grandparent ones are the most blatant by far

[muawiyah]

Regarding Grandpa Dunham's WWII uniform, he enlisted immediately after Pearl Harbor.

That meant he benefited from the issue of OLDER DESIGNS in use in the US Army subsequent to WWI and up through about 1943 in many areas.

What you think to be "Marine Corps" materials are actually US Army uniform issue ~ and probably pretty nearly the same as the Marine Corps uniform issue at the time.

This was during the Great Depression. It wasn't so much folks didn't have money, or a place to live, or a job ~ it was that manufacturing had fallen off the planet and there was NOTHING TO BUY that you wanted to buy if you had money if you had a job and a home.

Stuff was in short supply.

My father enlisted BEFORE Pearl Harbor and was issued WWI uniforms for his initial training, and then was issued a more advanced, but doggone it looked like Marine uniforms for his subsequent training as an aircraft engineer. When he finally got to his assignment at Bolling Field he was issued prisoner's dark blue fatigues ~ but he got assigned to a better barracks.

I believe it took Roosevelt's handpicked base commander at Bolling to direct that my father and the others with him be issued standard Army uniforms.

So, hey, yeah, old Dunham was out in the boonies and he was lucky they had a uniform to give him. My father was in an elite outfit that got regular peptalks directly from FDR and he had troubles with uniforms.

If I were you I wouldn't give up my day job!

[backwoods-engineer]

Thanks for posting the photos. I laughed and laughed and laughed. It would be funnier, even, if this jerk wasn’t shredding the Constitution.

[Tatze]

Your series of park bench photo's is not at all conclusive. In fact, the "evidence" offered proves nothing.

First, the "original"

The "no tree" image has no tree AT THAT ANGLE. Get a straight on shot we'll see if there is a tree there or not. And what year was this photo taken? Even if at the same angle, tree's cannot fall or be cut down?

This tree, is in front of the wall. The tree in the original is behind the wall. Clearly not the same tree. This photo also clearly shows many other benches, so how do you know which bench the picture was taken at, and again, if whatever bench had a tree behind it?

Very sloppy "analysis" on that series of pictures. Questionable on most of the rest. Only the first one looks somewhat dubious.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Can we spell T R E A S O N?

[Wicket]

Okay, I came to this conversation late - where were these photos originally published? They are clearly fakes.

[new cruelty]

[Question Liberal Authority]

[freemike]

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