Extremely Sad News

[Keith Rowland]

Chris:  My XYL and I were so overwhelmed by such idiocy that no adequate
comments came to mind to describe our feelings about such a heinous
act.  I surely hope the appropriate heads roll on this one.

73, Keith and Sharon Rowland



Chris Trask wrote:
>
>         I would appreciate it if the original poster of this article,
> being myself, was somehow recognized.
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Tom Norris wrote:
>
> > Right way, Wrong way, Navy way?
> >
> >
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> >          Navy's Technical Records of 20th Century Destroyed
> >
> > Associated Press, Washington - Naval Research Laboratory records that
> > "chronicle some of the most significant technical achievements in the
> > 20th century" were inadvertently destroyed by the National Archives.
> >         They were "pulped beyond recognition," the archives said Wed-
> > nesday.  The archives and the Navy blamed each other.
> >         Fed into the pulper sometime last summer were 4,200 scientific
> > notebooks and 600 boxes of correspondence and technical memos.
> >         "The historical record of our nation's scientific and techno-
> > logical heritage has suffered a serious and irreperable loss," Read Adm.
> > Paul G. Gaffney II, chief of Naval Research, wrote National Archivist
> > John Carlin, protesting the destruction of the records.
> >         Among the lost records, Gaffney said, were the correspondence
> > of American pioneers in high-frequency radio, work of the inventors of
> > radar "and the war records or the application of these technologies in
> > the campaigns against Nazi Germany and Japan."
> >         Also lost were records of "path-breaking acoustic and oceano-
> > graphic research" and materials tracing the early history of the Amer-
> > ican space program with V-2 and Viking rockets, records of Vanguard,
> > the first U.S. satellite program, "and much more," Gaffney said.
> >
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