OK I’m playing with a theory re: Walt Starr’s latest finding..

[Junkdrawer]

His finding was that, in daddy’s library, hangs a photo of 2nd Lt. G. W. Bush wearing a unit ribbon that wasn’t awarded to the unit until 1975...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=675299&mesg_id=675299&page=

Now, we all suspect that Dubya went AWOL in 1972. And there’s considerable evidence that Dishonorable Discharge paper work was floating around http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=177. And Dubya went to Grad School late in 1973.

Consider this scenario:

Dubya goes AWOL for about a year. Sometime late in 1973 his daddy gets a call from a friendly commander that his son is about to get a Dishonorable Discharge. The shit hits the fan, and a deal is cut: Dubya is busted back to 2nd Lt. and must serve the year he missed. Going back to Texas on weekends, Dubya finally finishes his obligation (perhaps in a back office somewhere) and gets his Honorable Discharge in 1975. A picture is taken and daddy hangs it in his study.

Now, when Dubya decides on a political career, something has to be done. So his record is sanitized . (Sloppily some say)

Now, the reason I like this theory is that, in the 1973/75 no one thought Dubya would have a political career. And the idea of “making him do the right thing” fits my experience with young men with “Big Daddies”.

If I’m right, perhaps the proof of Dubya’s AWOL lies in asking TANGers of 1974/1975 if they remember Dubya.