Do You Have Discharge Papers?

There's been a few cases where the book has been useful to prove things for people who've lost documentation. In 18 32 in tennessee, there was a guy called edward wiit who was trying to get a pension in connection to his military service in the revolutionary war. He needed to prove his age, but he had no way of proving his age. And what the court records as his submission of proof was that this book, aristotal's masterpiece, was brought in by him and it had in it his birthdate as recorded by his parents in it. They persuaded the court that he was born when he said he was born, so he could get the pension. Parents used