TBH, I'd donate to that anyway. I get to write it off and my Granddad was 101st. Glad to do it in any case. Sorry that it got out of hand.
Excellent. AER makes a big difference and you should feel very good about what you did today. I've seen it first hand, it's run by retirees, and their financials are decent too. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6491 Respect to your Granddad! Jack Keane commanded the 101st in the 90s FWIW. Sorry that I got so abrasive so fast. I had to go for a walk to process the fact that someone actually paid a $1,000 internet bet that -- best of all -- will benefit soldiers in need. Thanks again and have a great weekend. If we ever meet whatever you're drinking is on me, for as much as you can stand ($1,000 limit ).
Anytime. I am familiar with Gen. Keane, but didn't know he'd commanded the 101st. I'd just been paid-off on a prop-bet so it was opportune timing and I'd checked the AER with a couple charity sites and the date it was founded (1942). Wife saw the email before I did and wondered what compelled me; told her I saw some news-segment.
I never saw the end of this, I do sometimes manually unsubscribe from threads I lose interest in. So I am curious about something. I raised the point before that the first three are the letterheads of U.S. Army, Brigadier General, Gen. George Strong, SHAEF Chief of Intelligence, 1942-1945. Poindexter chose to make no comment. https://www.flagcollection.com/reso...ionHTMLZone_Code=resources_heart_flagofficers General Strong died in January 1946. Now usually a personal letterhead is not used after someone dies. The first is also older. I re-referenced this multiple times and he chose to blank it. So if he was sent personal letters in that time period for work he did.. And lets say these were sent in 1945 (clearly from three different print runs), Poindexter had to be at least 18 years old.. that would make Poindexter 90, at an absolute minimum. Now.. his comment "Because I actually worked this in the real world " relates back to this: "Irrelevant to preventing us from being nuked. Sorry but we absolutely do not have the capability to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against Russia. That's ridiculous. And we're not getting into a nuclear war with Russia. Crawl back into your lead lined basement and put your tinfoil hat back on." So I gathered he is saying he worked on problems relating to nuclear war scenarios? So what I was thinking at the time is we have a 90+ year old man who received letters complimenting him on his work on nuclear attack planning? of some kind from the office of the head of US army intelligence in WWII who died in 1946 before anyone else had a nuclear bomb. So.. yeah.. what am I missing here? I have based a lot of Poindexter is a FOS fantasist on his failure to address this little curiosity multiple times when I referenced the antique letterheads and he just avoided it. Any ideas?
Wrong you idiot. The first three are standard letterheads of Army MGs and the fourth is the letterhead of the Army Vice Chief of Staff. All are contemporary.