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10.Found Footage_ FTAA 920423 📼.mp4

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I’m digging more and more, trying to make sense of these things. Each tape just gets weirder. This one is talking about some sort of invalidation and uninvention, historians finding evidence of new events in the past?

I can confirm a few details at least:

I did find out that Fort Ritchie was a military installation at one time. It was closed in 1997 by the "BRAC":

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...

It also looks like it was somehow connected to some secret military base. But I'm not sure how secret something is when it's on the front page of the newspaper:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...

(Google's scan is weird - jump to page 13 and it's on the front page of October 13th's paper, turned sideways)

But secret military bases aren't what's bothering me.

If someone can be “invalidated” and wiped from existence, then what does that really mean? I’ve spent my whole life studying history - something that’s immovable, that doesn’t change. I know what happened in 1992 because I've studied it. The same for 1963, 1876, 1851... These things happened. They don't change.

But what if they do? What if something can disappear from the past? If the letter I quote in a journal article suddenly gets “unwritten” because the author never existed - am I a liar? Were my conclusions wrong when I wrote it with that letter in my hand? Are they suddenly wrong now that the letter doesn’t exist?

I know for a fact that the U.S. Capital is in the District of Columbia - it’s a district, not a state. But have I always known that? Will I wake up tomorrow still knowing that? If history changes do I change too?


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