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hey i think someone already said this but they're right- genuinely so excited whenever a post of yours comes up on my dash and it's archived documentation about E Company. thank you for the work you put in it's so interesting. funnier too when the sources r like "yeah yeah winters and nixon gay as hell", EVEN FUNNIER WHEN ITS WINTERS HIMSELF. recently got his memoir and he is not subtle. uh anyway point is thank you for your preservation i think it's admirable work. also, has there been anything in particular you were really excited to have found???

Winters makes me question every damned day what the hell was going on in WW2. But I love digging up the old reports and docs, even if it's a trail of 'slender hips' 'hugs and kisses' and 'Lookin good'. Raise morale and whatever else any way you can, sir. Nobody was doing it like you. Dick Winters left easter eggs everywhere. His Files, his memoirs, interviews, photos, diary....no worries whatsoever about what anyone thought.

Things I am excited to find are more for my Nixon research through Dick's paperwork than Nixon's paperwork has. BUT here is our current mystery:

I'll preface this with about 80% of the army personnel files burned in the National Archives fire in 1973. And when you get official personnel files you get everything- every scrap of paper. Dental records. Enlistment forms. Commendations. Fingerprints. Medical write up about saddle sores. People writing for army records because they think Wendell Wilkie is lying about enlisting and was drafted. Interoffice memos about writing a good obit. Doctor note about passing out because of malaria. Employee reviews. For example we have Audie Murphy, Matt Ridgway and Maxwell Taylors files online. Wealth of info.

So when I request Dick's file and get this it's weird. The file written on? 'Delete'? What? And the file was EMPTY but the folder was still there with this on it? And 'delete' is used to denote that SSN, addresses and sensitive information were blacked out prior to handing off the paperwork but not field destroyed. Like this implies.

NO archivist is going around with Sharpie writing on original personnel files. PLUS I get the transfer history of the file and it existed in some form to be transferred in 1983. Was transferred to Philadelphia, 2 hrs from where Dick is living. During the early eighties the Easy guys were starting to write up their history and get stories straight. 1982 was the reunion where Dick saw Tab again before he died in Oct. Now in Jan 1983 a request for his file is met with the file moving? Hmmm.

However in August 1997 the file is marked Destroyed. Yet the original file has delete on it? So the contents were destroyed not the folder? In 2003 Dick sends his history and separation papers to NARA to start a rebuild. What is in the file now is all copies of company reports, rosters, a photocopied news article, these transfer notes.

For the record, this is nowhere near what should be in this file and probably was in it in 1983 when it started travelling to Pennsylvania. This is what you get when the file was burned and you are trying to piece together something for archiving purposes. Some guys get a final pay voucher and that is it.

This is WEIRD. Accepting theories. Everything from 'shit happens' to 'there was a blue ticket in there ;)'. I really have no idea.

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Taco Donnie's Parade

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Summer vibes.

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prayer cards for babe/roe/renee ❄️❄️❄️

collab w/ @tinglingfuckingsensation who did the beautiful gifs and provided me with the template. my half of the project was the poem and typesetting ehehehe

poem word counts: 86, 120, 118. explication and alt text here.