I should have been a little clearer.  My service was 
during the Vietnam era, the records of which are 
supposedly gone.  I know the VA and the military are two 
separate data depots but I wonder how much service info is 
recoverable from the VA files.  They don't hand out aid 
and treatment without documentation.

Paul

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:46:38 -0400
  Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/28/2007 6:43:31 A.M. Pacific 
>Daylight Time,  
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> 
> VA  computer theft occurred last year, 
> they were able to notify me and  millions of others via 
> direct mail that our personal info may have been  
> compromised.
> 
> 
> 
> One wonders where this information came from and how far 
>back in time. Many  
> veterans from World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, Grenada, 
>Gulf War, Iraq and 
> general  service contact the VA for benefits. Even 
>though my father's records of 
> his  infantry experience in France and the Battle of the 
>Bulge burned at the 
> National  Archives, he applied for and received medical 
>assistance at the VA. I 
> think it  is safe to say the VA records contain 
>different kinds of information 
> than the  Army Records Center and National Archives. But 
>hey, maybe all the VA 
> stuff ought  to go online too?
> 
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
> 
> 
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Paul D. Scotton
Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics
Classics
California State University
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