Posted on 09/10/2004 11:09:40 AM PDT by aft_lizard
James Rosen just reported that the Pentagon questions the use of a PO Box on a memo, and that the PO Box may never have been used by that unit saying it seems highly unlikely that they would have PO Box containing sequential numbers. Standard military practice has always been to place the actual physical address on the letter head.
It's not like the memo had dead giveaway info on it, like CC to Johnny Johnson in Johnson City, Texas or anything. ;)
FYI
OK those documents raise even more questions.
Why does the 147th FIG have the same PO Box as the 111th?
Why do the killian document list an address that according to the USA today link had bushing living there in 1969 but in jan 1971 he lived at a different address?
Curious.
Regarding the K, you can also see in one doc where the top of it is cut off, as if cut and pasted, and then xeroxed, just as we used to do in the days before computers.
The plot thickens...
I kinda got the same feeling when he referred to GHWB as GWB's "dad". For some reason, I would think as a by-the-book military guy in the early 70's, he would have used the term "father" on a memo. But what do I know.
Obviously Hollywood was not involved in this or it might have been PO Box 90210.
Anyways, I think this angle of "forgery" should be put to bed, the Pentagon not withstanding.
401 CRS (USAFE)
(Torrejon AB SPAIN)
APO NY 09283
NO P.O. Box number ever, on 3 stateside bases and 1 OS base. Actually, each base has it's own ZIP code and post office.
"why would he even bother putting an address header on a memo to himself?"
exactly;
a. either he would use a letterhead and follow the memo format for a Memordandum for Record;
b. or if it was something quick for his own use, why bother with formalities -- why anything but a date? why an odd signature block? Just write it, date it, initial or sign it.
If a unit clerk typed it, it would be case a.
If he did it himself, it would more likely be case a if he was a stickler about military formality; or case b if he just wanted a quick memo for himself. It would not be some mishmash in between.
Since he could not type (per his wife), it would have to be case a, a clerk typing it. A secretary or clerk WOULD use the letterhead and MFR format -- even if not perfectly (could be a new clerk or something).
But it violates too many conventions to have been case a.
Since he couldn't type (which we did not know for sure yest. before the widow spoke up) it wasn't case b, either.
Just a thought and a fantasy.............
Wouldn't this be great if this was, in fact, a sting? A sting in a federal criminal investigation? Sweet.
(I can dream, can't I?)
Yeah--the physical address....
If this is an invalid source. I would appreciate a ping to tell me so - so I can stop using it . . .
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Not. The PO Box was used in an earlier paperwork for the 147th FIG, now why would the 111th use the same PO Box as another unit?
34567 on a phone pad spells “films” so I suspect the forger is Michael Moore.
My guess is that the person is non-military, too young to remember old typewriters and too lazy to do their homework.
Maybe so, but would typing that letter on the IBM Executive have the *exact* overlay that typing it on MS Word does? I think not.
I work at a Help Desk. One of the partners in my firm wrote a book when we were using Word Perfect. He wanted to print out a few more copies but we had since converted to MS Word. Now, we used the same computers (different software, though), the same font (Times New Roman, coincidentally), the same pitch and could not get the text to line up exactly. We had to change the parameters (i.e, condensing white space, kerning, line height spacing) for almost *every line* in a 200+ page book to get the same line breaks and page breaks in Word as we did in WordPerfect.
And this was no 30 YEAR DIFFERENCE in technology -- no more than 3!
So if you can show me that you can get an exact overlay from a 30 year old typewriter as you can from MS Word I would be very interested to see it!
Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they (CBSDNC) were to trot out some 7th grader who then sheepishly admits that he and some friends did it as a lark. Therefore the whole thing should just be laughed off......
sKerry has been reduced to a punchline.
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