Friday, June 10, 2005

Open up military files, and legends come out

In April 1958, a "Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Erickson" of Sacramento hand wrote a letter to then-first lady Mamie Eisenhower asking her to "please, please be so sweet and kind as to ask Ike to please bring Elvis Presley back to us from the Army."...starting Saturday, the public will be able to peek for the first time into the private military service files of 150 famous people. They are just the most prominent of nearly 1.2 million records that the National Archives and Records Administration will open at its facility in St. Louis this weekend. It's the first of several public releases expected between now and 2067. Most of these files contain the records of Navy and Marine Corps enlisted troops who served between 1885 and 1939.
Still no form 180 from Kerry...

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