The plot thickens! According to a NYT story published Wednesday, the former secretary to the dead colonel who fretted about sugar-coating Dubya's Air National Guard service says while the memos might well be fake, the opinions in them are accurate.

"The information in them is correct," the woman, Marian Carr Knox, now 86, said in an interview at her home here. "But I doubt,'' she said, pausing, "it's not anything that I wrote because there are terms in there that are not used by Guards, the format wasn't the way we did it. It looks like someone may have read the originals and put that together."

"We did discuss Bush's conduct and it was a problem (Lt. Col. Jerry B.) Killian was concerned about," Mrs. Knox said. "I think he was writing the memos so there would be some record that he was aware of what was going on and what he had done." But, she said, words like "billets," which appear in the memorandums, were not standard Guard terms.

According to the NYT story, neither Killian's son nor his widow found any such memoranda in his personal effects when he died in 1984.

They don't believe the memos are real. Nor do they believe those were their husband's/father's thoughts in 1972-73.

Plenty more to write about, but I gotta gets me some sleep!