Dave, you've been a busy boy this AM!
With all of these answers to so many threats, questions and points, I was wondering if you were then going to be able to give answer to my question which I have asked, not once or twice but three times?
I recognized that you felt the need to respond to questions or points would no longer happen, not even in discussing any “main issues”. I refer to your post, #188, where you stated:
“I think our main issues in this thread will not be solved by continued debate, but by compilation and examination of the facts, so I am going to spend what little free time I have to doing that. I promised JES a timeline and I havent been able to do that, so that will be my next post.”
You even gentlemanly apologized for doing so as you continued, “Sorry for those of you who have addressed productive posts to me to which I haven't responded…”
Immediately following that I made one last plea for you to consider what I think is a most important point that you have repeatedly ignored since I first mentioned it, and becomes even more so since you just stated that “by compilation and examination of the FACTS… [Capitals mine]” you would be providing JES with the “timeline” that you had promised him.
My plea can be found in post #189 immediately following your above post. You will notice that it contains 2 questions. The first is based upon the Travis article and contains a very important hint that MIGHT provide an answer to another question that you have seen important to address despite your statement above that you wouldn’t be doing so.
The second question is the one that I then asked for the FOURTH time on this thread and that you repeatedly have ignored.
The entire post #189 is:
Pat,
Doesn't what Travis wrote in January 1913 seem to imply not only that Wilson had gone to France on his trip, but that he brought back either seed or samples of grasses that he used at Merion?
"On some of the sand mounds I noticed the growing of something which looked suspiciously like the bents of Le Touquet..."
David, even though you haven't had the time to answer my twice-asked question, I have no problem with you laying out a timeline for JES created "by compilation and examination of the facts..." as long as they are FACTS and not suppositions presented as such.
In other words, until you present proof that the Wilson on the manifest WAS the Wilson of Merion then you can only state it as a SUPPOSITION and if presented that way I would have no quarrel with it.
Well, since you have now stated that, “I have redone the outline but am not going to post it for now, at least until the ruckus dies down. I'd like to actually discuss the issues and our posts…” might you finally consider addressing my question, and notice that this becomes the FOURTH time I ask it for it is only by addressing this issue that your “hypothesis” and/or “timeline” can actually take on the aspect of having been done in a “scientific manner.”
I hate to nudge… but this question really does need answering.