@wellerstein Which I learned from this site: http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=2217&PIpi=80336974 …
Fun fact: General Groves' grave is adorned with the unofficial Manhattan Project logo—a question-mark mushroom cloud.pic.twitter.com/MFhLy3UXzy
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@wellerstein what is true story behind that unofficial logo/patch? Some AEC guard patches I've seen mimic it. -
@news38555 It was cooked up in the days after Hiroshima and worn around by MED personnel as patches. I don't know who came up with it. -
@wellerstein@news38555 Doesn't say who designed it, but an interesting find from the Institute of Heraldry. http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=5133&CategoryId=2926&grp=2&menu=Uniformed%20Services&ps=0&p=0&hilite=manhattan%20project … -
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@wellerstein@news38555 And the Los Alamos Lampoon cover from@AtomicHeritage indicates adoption by August 1945.pic.twitter.com/csZ0lamrn7
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@wellerstein@timkrepp what cemetery is he buried in? -
@capitolization@timkrepp Arlington National Cemetery: http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2217 … -
@wellerstein@capitolization yup. He's just off the path btwn Lee House and Tomb of the Unknowns. -
@timkrepp@wellerstein may need to make my first visit to ANC in ages.
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