TIM RICHARDSON -> EARL CROASMUN wrote:
 TR> On 04-13-08, EARL CROASMUN said to STAN HARDEGREE:


 ->> ID card at my house and that he was, in fact, a retired Marine.


 EC>> Years ago Richard mentioned a book on the war that made passing mention
 EC>> of him as one of the Marines assigned to the Saigon embassy in the late
 EC>> period of the war.  I looked it up and found it, not because I doubted
 EC>> him but because it was an interesting experience to see him mentioned in
 EC>> the book after years of interacting with him in fidonet.


 TR> Sauer once stated that he had contacted a Marine recruiter who looked
 TR> Richard's record in the Marine Corp up for him, and told him (Sauer) that
 TR> Richard had a dishonorable discharge.

The "Marine recruiter" was his cousin the geology professor...
you know, the offspring of his uncle the crazy drunk and his aunt the
bigot.

IOW, he made the story up out of whole cloth.

Ed

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