Michael Edson Potomac Forum Government and Transparent Web Strategy

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+ dllavoy 4 months ago
Phenomenal. So sorry i missed tuesday - work, you know. But will be there for next.

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Jeff Kinney

““Over the last half century, various assessors had ascribed three fates to U-879: they first pronounced her lost without a trace; then sunk off Halifax in Canadian waters; then sunk of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. As the Divers studied further, they recognized that the current assessment by German naval historian Axel Niestlé—that U-879 had been sunk off Cape Hatteras—was correct. But the lesson was stark and by now familiar: written history was fallible. Sloppy and erroneous assessments had been rushed into the official record, only to be presumed accurate by historians, who then published elegant reference works echoing the mistakes. Unless a person was willing, as Chatterton and Kohler were, to ditch work and sneak off to Washington, chisel away at mountains of opaque original documents, sleep in fleabag motels, eat street-vendor hot dogs, and runoutside every two hours to shovel quarters into a parking meter, he would presume the history books to be correct. As they left Washington for New Jersey that night, Chatterton and Kohler celebrated their detective work—original research that virtually proved that the [vessel they found] was U-857. Along the way each marveled at how easy it was to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important it would be to further rely on oneself.” P229

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