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.
This hoax is so crude that it defies credulity.
Another joke I found buried in the documents is the subject of one of the memos: "CYA."
I bet the prankster hid a bunch of funny gems in these documents.
Red Storm Rising?
>>>these are faked so badly that they were originally an DNC internal parody/joke
Excellent thought.
I noticed the PO Box 34567 on at least one other doc, while looking at the nasty bushawol site recently. So--it's buried on an obscure anti-Bush site in an obscure document. That begs the question: who knew about that POB number, and would want to get Bush?
>>Not obsure to me, I love that movie. May the schwartz be with you.<<
I suppose you already knew this but I might as well come out with it: My schwartz is bigger than yours.
LOL! Who works at CBS? Keystone Journalists?
Two things, the po box does not match the unit, it is from the 147th according to an earlier poster. The other thing it is not SOP to just give a po box, you must provide the actual physical address
I'm having so much fun today!
Thank goodness for the stupidity and insanity of the left. With so little common sense left (if at all) these kind of fiascoes will hopefully plague them more and more. :))
Ladies and Gentlemen, if all this holds up then there can be no doubt that the person who would use a font on a document dated 25 years before the font was created, or who would use numbers in sequence for a phony PO box has got to be the stupidest person ever placed on God's green Earth. Even dumber than my brother-in-law, and that's saying a lot.
I lived in zip code 77034 from 1962 till 1981. Ellington AFb was only 5 miles from my house. I can not be certain that the AFB was in 77034 but I can be sure that I was.
After a great deal of research, I don't believe that the PO box is false. The same PO Box number appears on several other original documents in Bush's military record file, and the authenticity of these documents is not in question. What may be unusual in the Killian "memo" (besides the proportional font and anachronistic characters) is the choice of address - any such correspondence would likely have been on letterhead of the parent organization (the 147th FIG, rather then the 111th FIS).
When you look at the initial the "K" is formed by first starting with a single downward line, lifting the pen and then a sideways "V" to finish the "K."
My first name is Kenneth and I sign my name a lot; I always make my "K" the same way even if you can't read the rest of my initial or signature.
When one signs one's name it is an expression of ego, either high, low or indefinite.
Think about it the next time you sign your name or initials on anything; think hard and your signature will change.
Check out page 10 of these official docs released by Bush: http://www.usatoday.com/news/bushdocs/9-Miscellaneous.pdf
I think people might be a little carefull with the amount of certainty they are giving this document forgery story -I for one am still not sure.
I am sure that what Bush did or didn't do in the national guard 35 years ago is nearly irrelevant to me in the first place . . .
John Kerry - Pizza the Hutt
John Edwards - Vinny
Teresa - Princess Vespa??
You raise even more questions, why would he even bother putting an address header on a memo to himself?
Very funny!!!
BTW, exactly WHO in the Pentagon is questioning this address?
Could it be a mid-level Dem, so when the address does indeed turn out to be legitimate for 1972-3 they can then spin the myth that the doc was investigated by the Pentagon and found to be legitimate?
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