Friday, June 03, 2005

MIA: Part II

A US Newsire press release:
For the first time, the National Archives National Personnel Records Center will open to the public nearly 1.2 million official military personnel files of former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel who served in the military between 1885 and 1939. This opening will also include 150 official files of "persons of exceptional prominence", including former Presidents, famous military leaders, celebrities, entertainers and professional athletes who served in the military and who died at least 10 years ago.

Selected excerpts from those files will be available for the media at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis and at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. Among the individuals whose files will be highlighted are: Charles Lindbergh, Joe Louis, Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, Elvis Presley, Alvin York, Wendell Wilkie, Edouard Izac, Hank Greenberg, Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Grover Cleveland Alexander, John Lejeune, Jackie Robinson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Jack Kerouac.
Notice a missing name? Say...John Forbes Kerry, who by the way, fought in Vietnam...