Simple enough question Don, to state that GWB went AWOL from the Air National Guard (Which is what Bobert did state) there has to have been a charge brought and court martial proceedings must have been instituted against Lt. G. W. Bush.

Now, to invoke as you did, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!!"

Hand on heart do you know of any such charges or any such court martial proceedings ever having taken place?

I know of none. On the other hand, it is a matter of public record that Lt. G. W. Bush received an Honourable Discharge from the Air National Guard, that would not be the case if he had even been AWOL.

I have no idea of whether or not you ever served in the armed forces, I did and no matter whether it be US or UK armed forces they do tend to take, Absent from place of Duty/Absent With Out Leave/Desertion, very seriously, mainly because they have to.

You keep harping on about a secretary who is supposed to have typed a routine letter obviously some time back in 1972 then being asked about it some time in 2000 and she has total recall of it?? She must have been grossly under-employed, while possessing at the same time an amazingly retentive memory. Did the eager researcher/reporter/journalist ask her the content of the letter she typed immediately prior to that letter or the one after to check her memory? I find the following logic a bit difficult to swallow:

That the absence of any original document that "proves" GWB did indeed go AWOL is automatically explained as a cover-up and that this explanation must be accepted without reservation. While obviously forged documents that support the belief that he did not fulfil his obligations to the Air National Guard are to be accepted as gospel truth. When the document is clearly shown to be forgery, a secretary is trotted out and we are expected to believe that she recalls the content of a letter she typed 28 years previously - Did she keep the carbon copy? Is that what you're going to tell us next.

Lt. G. W. Bush total points accumulated in a period of service from May 1968 to July 1973 was 951, the number required for six years service was 300, he applied like many others for early discharge and his request like those of many others was granted.