"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
Merely mis-remembering something from 35 years ago is a routine lapse
and
does not constitute delusion. But to insist that a distant memory on a
partisan matter is necessarily reliable and requires no fact-checking,
and
to cling to that memory in the absence of corroboration and in the
presence
of
strong contrary evidence, is to willfully dwell in a fantasy world.

I have seen no contrary evidence, strong or otherwise, to my memory of
35
years ago, nor has anyone even attempted to present any.

The evidence I presented consists of the observation that despite many
researchers (partisan and otherwise) poring over the public (and private)
record concerning both Kerry's and Bush's actions 35 years ago, no
right-wing blogger and no ratings-hungry corporate news outlet has
publicized the newspaper articles that allegedly link "Kerry and
associates"
to what you claim they perpetrated: a cruel hoax in which they forged
telegrams that gave false notice of combat deaths!



That is not evidence. However, whoever sent out those telegrams did a great
service, albeit perhaps inadvertently. It finally forced the military to end
the appalling practice of notifying relatives of war casualties by telegram.