On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Duncan Frissell wrote:
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> > Frissell's Believe it or Not:
> >
> > WWII was won by soldiers, sailors, and marines who fought, died, flew
> > bombers, commanded armies, commanded fleets, and possessed and used nuclear
> > weapons wi
Jim Choate wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
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> > It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not
> > effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it.
>
> I have zero problem with that assertion.
>
> However, lying about one
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not
> effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it.
At the time, insufficient age was an "open secret" for these so
afflicted. Warm bodies are what drive a
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not
> effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it.
I have zero problem with that assertion.
However, lying about ones age and getting away with it is a fa
It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not
effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it.
Marc de Piolenc
Duncan Frissell wrote:
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> At 05:10 PM 12/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> >Which is beside your point. Your statement was that the governm
At 05:10 PM 12/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>Which is beside your point. Your statement was that the government didn't
>do ANY identification for ANY of the soldiers in WWII. Patently wrong.
>Quit trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
>AFTER the war started, not before. When t
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> > Bullshit, if they had birth certificates they were required to produce
> > them. And if you worked on the neuclear weapons then the FBI most
> > certainly did do a background check.
>
> But of course the
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
> Bullshit, if they had birth certificates they were required to produce
> them. And if you worked on the neuclear weapons then the FBI most
> certainly did do a background check.
But of course they weren't required to have birth certificates. It also
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