So he didn’t remember if he was a civilian Dec 8 1941?
Christ almighty.
Was he another one of DrDeth’s dad’s best friends during the Spanish American War of 1812 along with General Custer?
Seriously, as long as you’re all spinning on this carousel, DD’s too preoccupied to carry out new, novel jackassery. Sit back and wait a while.
The thread’s happily engaged in its intended purpose of mocking its subject. Right now, it seems they’re taking him for a nice game of Willie Scuggins, and they won’t let up until he finishes throwing the wobbler he’s obviously started, and starts frothing and violently attacking himself.
Probably best to go schoolmarm it up somewhere else until it’s over, yeah?
< golf clap >
Quality use of a Pratchett reference there.
TIL that South African schoolmarms call their students fuckin jackasses and say Christ Almighty a bunch.
Look at it this way: we have an in-house connection to what went on behind the scenes in General MacArthur’s command, and his memory’s a little faulty. We’re trying to coax some continuity out of him while he’s lucid, and occasionally it requires yelling to jolt his synapses into working.
No, but your finger wagging game is eerily on-point.
Christ, if I may repeat myself, almighty.
Pit thread not going to your liking? Gee-willikers, Mister Dorkness, that’s never happened before…
Yeah, it’s not, because an incredibly tedious wank-off has arisen. Glad you’re having fun, though.
Thanks. It’s not the birthday present I asked for, but it’s nice enough.
Happy cake day! I’ll toast you properly tonight with some Kalimotxo (which I learned about from you).
And have you forgiven me for that yet? 
But seriously - thanks, and enjoy.
As far as his father goes, I think what these people say sums it up.
For the record, my intention was to poke fun of DD and his portrayal of his father’s service, as was recounted in many threads until the inconsistencies were pointed out.
Good god, I hope this is my final post and he’ll indeed let it go.
Warning! The following is all TLDR territory. If history isn’t your thing, you can scroll right past it. . . Nothing here for you
DD is claiming that I am claiming that (did I get that right?) no one other than MacArthur, et al, escaped. He then found a cite online which shows that US FEAF personnel were transferred from Mindanao, some 600 miles away, so this proves I’m lying! Great catch! Great cite!!! And he’s going on and on about it, repeating this many times.
Except I never said that. So that cite proves nothing.
His claim now is that his father was attached to the US Far East Air Force (FEAF) after he joined the Army on or after December 8th rather than GHQ. He then was sent to Mindanao (or arrived there in the first place) while it was still safe and then evacuated along with everyone else there.
This is new information which seems to a way to allow his father to leave the Philippines. It’s problematic in that it was never mentioned before and seemingly contradicts earlier accounts.
On several occasions, DD claimed that his father was recalled to GHQ. I quoted one earlier.
(bolding mine)
Here is another from the most recent GD thread.
My bolding
I’m sure there will be some sort of explanation why “back into HQ” doesn’t mean “back into” and why I’m an asshole for quoting him.
If the father was in Mindanao then transferred to Australia along with the other members of FEAF, he would never have been in danger of being part of the Bataan Death March. Why would he? He would have already been in Australia. Catching malaria or not would have made any difference. The Bataan Death March was for prisoners from Corregidor and Bataan and not for FEAF personnel in Australia. They were already gone when the US surrendered. Malaria didn’t save him, his assignment to FEAF did.
I know, right!? Aww shit, now I’m the asshole…
It takes one to know one.
And what the fuck is wrong with your scroll button? You’re actually reading this? Just don’t operate heavy machinery.
Oh come on. You knew this was going to be tediously fact checked with footnotes.
Presumably, all the people engaging in the topic who aren’t you?
For my money, TokyoBayer’s post in this thread are very nearly the ideal Pit postings. They contain a wealth of interesting historical detail, and they comprehensively dismantle the dishonest claims of a lying asshole.
And if “Nobody’s mind is going to be changed by this,” is the metric by which we decide if something is worth posting, this whole message board is going to get super quiet.