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From: jeff <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Discharge papers
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:05:58 -0800
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wrote:
> Yes, St. Louis had a huge fire that destoyed records some years ago, but (1)
> the government has worked diligently to reconstruct each file and (2) I don't
> know anyone who could not get a file.
>
> Personally, I think this is a scare tactic.
> Barb
>
Records of WWII and Korean vets were burned as well as some "other" era
records, it isn't a scare tactic, why would anyone want to scare people
away from getting records of a vet?
--
Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
"In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory
of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general
government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter
cannot exist without them."
-- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)
Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 191.
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