where were you in '72? (another good debunking site)

[nosmokes]

edit to fix link.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Finishing college and getting my first job

I know I could have passed any drug test given me then-I'd challenge Bush to say the same thing.

[Downtown Hound]

2. In my dad's scrotum

and my mother's ovaries. I was born in 1976.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha

[many a good man]

3. I had perfect attendance that year

in fourth grade. And got a medal to prove it.

[Kukesa]

5. In Ohio, teaching VolcanoJen the "librul" ways of life. n/t

[NMDemDist2]

6. ROFL good for you K!

i was an "emancipated minor" working graveyard shifts at a nursing home and living with a biker guy

[Kukesa]

10. So, what happened with the biker guy? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

13. darned if i know darling, that was 30 years ,

3 marriages and 2 divorces ago :evilgrin:

[Kukesa]

16. AZDem, I think you're terrific. What fun you are! n/t

[NMDemDist2]

19. oh yeah, i'm a pistol hehehehee

Ann Richards is my hero, closely followed by Molly Ivins

i should be so talented as those two gals :D

[Philosophy]

7. Gestating

most of the year. Born in November. My mother was with me most of the time so she can support my alibi. But have to come clean and admit there's a couple of months in early '72 where I can provide no documentation of my existence.

[Sporadicus]

8. I Had Just Graduated From High School

It was a summer of unbridled freedom, debauchery, casual labor, and road trips. That ended early in 1973 when I went in the Navy.

[GoneOffShore]

9. Dodging the draft

in England. Married an Englishwoman, moved in 71, didn't come back here until 81.
No regrets, no apologies.

[merh]

11. I was in the 5th grade at St. James Elementary

Sister DeLordes was my teacher (they had just changed from wearing the long flowing habits like they wear in the Singing Nun to dresses with the head wear). Even then I was writing book reports and research papers on ecology and anti-war topics. My favorite song was "Let there be peace on earth".

[Blue Wally]

12. On my second tour in Vietnam

Which ended early when Henry the K declared "peace with honor" in early 1973.

[drdigi420]

14. i was 3

i dont remember where the hell i was

[Raven]

15. Taking care of my little baby boy!

Tee, hee! :-)

[maine_raptor]

17. Working for McGovern in W.Mass and

working on my second year of college.

[Awsi Dooger]

18. 7th grade, relishing the Dolphins' 17-0 as a season ticket holder

And I swear this is true: months earlier, after Dallas dumped Miami 24-3 in the Super Bowl, I inserted this into my nightly prayer, "Please have the Dolphins win EVERY game next year, including the Super Bowl."

A year later I got lazy and dumped the every game requirement, simply asking for another championship. No wonder we got beat by Oakland and Baltimore in the regular season that year.

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

20. I was born 4 Jun 1972, the very day the conspiracy hatched!

I should add my own birthday to my own website about the 1972 conspiracy. As far as I can tell, I was born the day they really hatched one of the more interesting of many plans that year: June 4, 1972. mmmm, dharma.

I'm going to plug what I am working on: an interactive calendar holding related documents about Bush in 1972 and 1973. See:

http://ofb.net/~bushsr

My site requires the SVG viewer because I wanted to make it interactive but open source. (On a related note, I need volunteers to do a day's research in Alabama, Washington D.C., Colorado, and Texas near Ellington AFB.)

The rest of this is duplicated elsewhere, and barely on-topic here, but I want people to read it, so:

The most interesting article I have read is by Joseph Nobles, who blogs as boloboffin. Here is a link to his explanation of how it is possible to account for every Bush Service Day of Jan 1972-May 1973:

http://boloboffin.blogspot.com/2004_07_04_boloboffin_ar...


It is thanks to him that I learned how to collect the data for my web site.

Paul Lukasiak is the author of "The Awol Project" at:
http://www.glcq.com /

Some of his most interesting information in terms of records forensics is in his dissection of the pay records:
http://www.glcq.com/understanding_payroll.htm

Martin Heldt of Clinton, IA is the citizen who obtained most of the documents under FOIA. I have spoken with him on the telephone and believe that all his documents are authentic as he received them. The first post was a link to his site.

In my opinion, trying to pin a legal definition of what was going on with Bush ("desertion", "AWOL", etc.) is kind of pointless. He apparently had the tacit approval of some higher-ups who were in on the whole scheme for him.

In my opinion, the question is: What interrupted his service that led to all this need for covering up the gap?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Graduating from college in Minnesota and

going to study Japanese at Cornell.

It was a great time!

[Dick_Tuck]

22. I know where I was in '71...

I worked with the Washington area student governments to find the VVAW a place to crash and roll a few joints. I went downtown during the rally and heard John Kerry and Rennie Davis speak. I sat in the back of the pow wow that night. Kerry fought for no VC flags with the YIPPIES next day. His argument was honest. He stated that most vets find YIPS parading with VC flags is offensive, and in no way represented the VVAW cause.

He also fought against tossing earned medals away. He had a good argument, but what changed the thing was Nixon's press release, claiming that the VVAW weren't really vets. Kerry won one that night. He had all those who had discharge papers hand them over for photocopy (yeah, this was '71, no Kinkos:-))and turn them over to the media. It worked like a champ. Nixon had to back pedal.

The next day, we did some teach-ins, where the vets talked about what the saw. I wasn't personally in any session of major atrocities being talked about, but came to understand how even the subtle acts of war made us a colonial occupier in the eyes of the Vietnamese people.

As for Bush, I think he had his daddy plea out community service for his coke bust around this time. I wasn't in Texas. I was in DC.

[NMDemDist2]

23. wow welcome to DU Dick_Tuck

:hi: