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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Sure, but are you saying the explanation doesn't hold water? That in 1997 (or whatever), they were destroyed in the process of trying to save them?
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No, I'm an agnostic when it comes to government claims of accidental incompetence. It could have happened that way. But Hank's point was that we should not be surprised that 1970 records are missing because our experiences of the private sector are that it's recockulous to keep things that long. When it comes to military service records, not so.
Other family story: my grandmother had to find evidence of my great-grandfather's enlistment, as an Ellis Island immigrant, in the Navy in 1905 (TR's Great White Fleet) because she had to prove he obtained his citizenship through that service. No problem finding the docs in the 1970s, well before computer archiving.
