Who Am I Anyway?
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Thu Dec 13 21:10:33 PST 2001
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
> Item: There are huge numbers of reported cases (no, I don't have URLs,
> but I have heard testimonials directly, for example) of guys who lied
> about their ages to enlist. (Some later rose high in the ranks...). This
> is hard to do if a birth certificate is "required."
I didn't say a birth certificate was required. I said if you had one you
were required to provide a copy. As usual twist the words...:(
If you google you can actually find forms and such used since the Civil
War online. They ask a variety of questions like mother, birthplace, age,
etc.
> Item: Many hobos, drifters, and the like enlisted. Not a lot of them
> were in contact with their birth towns, or even knew where there birth
> towns were.
Where's your evidence, or is this simply your opinion as well? It's easy
to 'win' a discussion if you get to make up your 'facts'. How many of
these hobbo's did you know personaly (considering you weren't even born
then I'd guess nil).
> Item: Assumed names were, and still are to some extent, common in
> America. I doubt many able-bodied men were turned down for military
> service just because they'd changed their name one or more times.
Whis is irrelevant since nobody but you has brought this up before.
> Of course, in Choate Prime, the reality sometimes parallel to our own,
> but usually not, men routinely avoided the draft by the simple stratagem
> of not remembering where their mothers said they were born, thus making
> getting a birth certificate impossible. "Sorry, I have no idea where I
> was born. Momma says we moved around a lot. So I can't get a birth
> certificate. Be seein' ya!"
Again, nothing I said implied that at all.
Typical CACL responce, attack the personality and to hell with the facts.
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