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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
... Nothing to know. These were the real thing. The rest is just the usual Neocon spin. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer Keeping the faith, eh Kramer? You really have your head in the sand. And I'm in the mood for a laugh so would you tell us again what a Necon is? Jarg |
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Nothing to know. These were the real thing. The rest is just the usual Neocon spin. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer And there you have it: The definitive word on document authentication from the man who says if you were not a bomb toggeler in a B-26 in WW II ETO you don't know anything or have the right to comment on military avation... Jack G. |
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In article %JM0d.23965$ni.13950@okepread01,
"Bob Coe" wrote: I just don't see how a person like Dan Rather could be so easily duped by these forgeries. They're something that he desperately *wants* to believe, reasonable or not. |
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"Tom Cervo" wrote in message ... Flynn said it's "very unlikely" that the memos are legit, adding that he knows of no typewriter fonts using proportionally spaced Roman type with a raised "th" available in the 1970s. Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting the roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not have ever typed footnotes. Haven't seen a copy of the "memo", hu? The superscripted "th" is in a much smaller font size than the rest of the document; the "th" used aprox the same horizontal space as each digit in the number before it. *If* it was produced by a typewriter of any vintage that used impact transfers of fixed characters, the superscript "th" was a single character. |
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"Bob Coe" wrote in message news:%JM0d.23965$ni.13950@okepread01... "Ed Rasimus" wrote But, the more important questions relate to why the commander is writing memos about pressure from a superior who retired 18 months earlier and hence was no longer above him. Or, why is the commander ordering Bush for a physical just two weeks into his 90 period of eligibility? Or, since when does a squadron commander issue orders for flight physicals (they don't!) Or why does the commander identify a CYA memo as a CYA? If you're really trying to cover your ass you don't point it out in the subject line. Or, why is the commander writing orders to a subordinate that he has already approved for temporary posting to another state in a unit which at the time had no airplanes to fly and over which he had no authority? Or, why does the commander's wife and son deny that he could type, that he was a memo writer or that he had any problem with Lt. Bush who he had commended very publicly on the record the year before? All of your points are right on the mark! I just don't see how a person like Dan Rather could be so easily duped by these forgeries. They weren't even originals! Hell even I can cut out someone's signature and put it on any letter I want with just a Xerox machine. Today I would just use my scanner and add it to my MS Word document. No, I think Dan Rather was putting his reputation behind a known forgery, to give it credence, and to hurt the Republican party. I hope it now results in his finally being put out to pasture (which should have happened 10 years ago anyway). Same with the other scum-bags on 60 minutes, who are always making a mountain out of a mole hill. I see only two reasons Dan Rather would have swalllowed the Rathergate memos. One Rather is stupid, or two Rather wanted to believe them. I opt for the the latter. Rather is a paristan democrat and is shows. David |
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On 11 Sep 2004 22:53:52 GMT, (B2431) wrote:
Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting the roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not have ever typed footnotes. Sure it was a common trick, but I have never seen it done on official documents. For instance I was in the 55th ARRS and that was the proper way to type it though I have seen 55 ARRS. By the way, on other of the documents, the forger wrote it with a space, so as to defeat the auto-corrector. Thus your outfit would be rendered thus: 55 th. Again, he was a rank amateur, fooling only the people who wanted to be fooled. It's no trouble at all, if you're too lazy to turn off auto-correction, to type 55 th and then delete the space. Word won't change it then. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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One of the obvious forgeries is posted at www.vivabush.org with a link to another site with more of the same, plus a $10,500 reward for Tom Cervo if he can re-create those documents with a 1972 typewriter. Enjoy the site. I established it four months ago after reading some of the slime posted on this newsgroup about Bush, whom I was then inclined to support. Over the months, I have become ever more partisan in this respect. Thus do anonymous trolls defeat their own cause. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:35:06 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote: On 11 Sep 2004 22:30:08 GMT, (Tom Cervo) wrote: Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting the roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not have ever typed footnotes. And makes the letters tiny? The forgeries were almost certainly created by Microsoft Word, and were certainly created by a computer. The forger was so amateurish that he didn't know how to turn off the auto-correct feature! all the best -- Dan Ford And, does anyone remember how you centered a heading with a typewriter? You counted the letters in the line to be typed, then centered the roller and backspaced half the number of letters before starting to type. Can you imagine a commander typing himself an MFR going through that sort of centered heading drill? Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" "Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights" Both from Smithsonian Books ***www.thunderchief.org |
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