GUESS I GOT TAKEN ALSO........SORRY
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From: Cece
To: <CLENDINEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: [CLENDINEN] Military Records REALLY recovered?
Sending you what I received. Sorry if this got hopes up. Cece
To: <
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: [INMARION] Military Records REALLY recovered?
> Dear List:
> I also received this email this a.m. which casts doubt on the message I
> just sent *FYI - Recovered Military Records.* I'm sorry if I passed on
> something that was not true.
> Janice
>
>
> This legend has been circulating for a number of years. I do not
> know how to prove definitively the truth of this story, but the
> December 2000 issue of what I believe to be the newsletter of the
> Illinois state headquarters of the American Legion carried the
> following story:
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> LOST MILITARY RECORDS QUESTIONED
>
> It was recently reported in a veterans publication that the
> Veterans Administration reported discovering 10 million
> duplicates of the 20th Century Military Records. These
> records were thought to have been destroyed in a fire. They
> were told to call the Veterans' Personnel Records, GSA, St.
> Louis, MO
> Phone contact was made by this office and was informed that
> this WAS NOT TRUE and they knew nothing of this nature.
> We will continue to monitor this situation.
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