Truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Should the children read
this and think it factual then they did not read close enough. While it is
true that bold statements were made, I believe that most was couched as
conjecture, speculation, and rumor. However that is not to say they are not
all "true". Who am I to judge another's delusion. My advise to you is go
back to your rainy day nap and let the less informed believe all they read
to be "true". May the Force be with you

Also, I don't believe I have read the words veracity and historical in the
same sentence since my undergrad days. Cool

Chris "TGIF" Flynn

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Holly Hodges [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:03 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: UV light filters, George II, and historical veracity

In a message dated 12/13/01 3:58:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> But we'll never know for sure now! George the IInd has just invoked
>  Executive Order 13233 (for this story, go here:
>
http://www.channel2000.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-112577320011213-111224.h
>  tml ), so the records will NEVER get released!
>
>  Dennis


Great!  I take a nap on my afternoon off (it's raining here and in spite of
the drought real rain makes me sleepy) and wake up to find the archivists at
play again!  Tomorrow's RAIN (Ha!) will includes headlines of "George II
threatens to behead the archival profession for the trechery of revealing
the
classified secrets of laser technological history."    Okay, sounds like
something of of National Inquirer's front page.  Would NI qualify for RAIN?
What standards are there to address this?  We have descriptive standards,
encoding standards, digital imaging standards, but what of historical
veracity?

Or did we hash that out after the urban legends of 9-11?

Have pity on the poor non-archival souls who tread this thread, as he may
not
recognise the twilight zone until the show's over.

Holly Hodges
Lynchburg, VA

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