Jliebgott1970

Ambrose

I thought that might be the case that you are a direct relative.

RE: Ambrose. He got kind of lazy. He would either go with a tape recorder, or send one of his assistants, or his son, and then sit with a G.I. for a four hours, and then go back and type it up as gospel. The problem is, if you and I and two other guys drove from Seattle to San Diego, we would have four different takes on what happened along the way, and most likely the truth is neither, but a fifth version. Ambrose stopped very short of dotting the "i's" and crossing the "t's". He took the word of those guys as all inclusive. The best thing about Ambrose is drawing attention to these guys and getting their story out there. If you read any of his books, you will find that he did a major pile of research in the mid-1980s and then just kept editing that same material over and over for a new book, they are all the same research and all the same material. But the books kept coming for years. So, read his material but know that it maybe wrong.

Drop me an email (go to my page and look on the left-hand column). > Best O Fortuna (talk) 22:50, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

PS: I don't know why you brought up Ambrose, the reference that you removed had nothing to do with him. It was from a BB at History.com (BBs are not a very good reference anyway.) I think that BB material was also posted by a relative of Joseph. > Best O Fortuna (talk) 23:13, 30 June 2010 (UTC)