Veterans still battling 1973 fire that wiped out millions of service records | Fox News It was not until the early 1990s that the Morrow family was told a fire destroyed Morrow's records, as well as the records of countless other military members, mainly those who served in the Army. The VA said the blaze had "erased" Morrow's record, his son claims. The blaze, blamed on a carelessly discarded cigarette butt, tore through the NPRC's military personnel records building, burning with such ferocity that it was not fully extinguished until four and a half days later. According to the National Archives, the fire destroyed the files of 80 percent of Army personnel discharged between Nov. 1, 1912 and Jan.1, 1960. It also wiped out the files of 75 percent of Air Force personnel discharged between Sept. 25, 1947 and Jan. 1, 1964. http://fxn.ws/1jcVqWe Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/08/veterans-still-fighting-for-va-benefits-recall-173-fire-that-erased-millions/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://fxn.ws/1jcVqWe+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
