XPost: alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.greens   
   From: orionca@earthlink.net   
      
   On 15 Feb 2004 17:03:51 -0800, stevesusenet@yahoo.com (Steve) wrote:   
      
   >"Chuck"  wrote in message news:...   
   >> Terry McAuliffe and the politics of personal destruction.   
   >>   
   >> Friday, Feb. 13, 2004 A retired Alabama Air National Guard officer said   
   >> Friday that he remembered George W. Bush showing up for duty in Alabama in   
   >> 1972, reading safety magazines and flight manuals in an office as he   
   >> performed his weekend obligations.   
   >   
   >Why is this even necessary?   
   >   
   >The military takes attendance.   
   >   
   >Why not just look up old roll call records?   
      
   It's entirely unlikely that these still exist.  They wouldn't have   
   used punch cards to clock in, more likely just an attendance sheet or   
   a chit from the duty officer saying that he had appeared for duty and   
   that he turned over to payroll to be forwarded to his regular unit.   
   Federal law only requires paper records be kept for 5 years and even   
   then you might not be able to find it unless you knew the EXACT office   
   it was kept in.  Even if some still existed it'd be next to impossible   
   to locate any of them.   
   --   
   After Kerry returned from Vietnam he became an antiwar   
   activist.  But was he really?  In 1972 he threw his   
   medals away to protest the war.  Years later it turned   
   out that he had thrown someone ELSE'S medals away and   
   kept his.   
      
   Ask yourself this:  Would Patricia Ireland burn someone   
   else's bra?  Then doesn't this make Kerry a fraud?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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