Thanks Rollie for the update on this situation. Appreciate it. Paula WaupacaCC >From: Rollie Littlewood <rklittle@facstaff.wisc.edu> (by way of Tim Stowell ><tstowell@chattanooga.net>) >Reply-To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIGEN-L] Re: Legend that burned VA Records have been discovered >Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:34:34 -0500 > >At 12:12 PM 1/6/2001 -0800, someone wrote: >--- begin quoted portion of your message --- >Received this off another MailingList... I have not verified this to >be true.... > >Source: An American Legion Post newsletter in Maryland > >"The Veterans Administration has reported discovering 10 million >duplicates of 20th Century Military Records. These records were thought >to have been destroyed in a 1973 fire which wiped out most Army records >from 1912 to 1960 and most Air Force records from 1947 to 1964. If you >need records that you were told were burned, you may contact: Veterans >Personnel Records, GSA, St. Louis, MO 63132. >... >--- end quoted portion of your message --- > > 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: >---------------------- >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. >----------------------- > > I have also received reports from individuals who have attempted to >follow up on this report, only to be disappointed when the Personnel >Records office told them it was not true. > > > > Rollie > > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Juneau County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wijuneau/ > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com