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Post by astree on Jan 17, 2020 8:10:05 GMT -5
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Post by edgewalker on Mar 10, 2020 20:25:10 GMT -5
Doesn't Forrest also say that the French grave marker at the top of the waterfall in Vietnam is for someone with an x in their name? I am pretty sure I read that somewhere. Organized people - reference?  |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 11, 2020 1:30:48 GMT -5
Doesn't Forrest also say that the French grave marker at the top of the waterfall in Vietnam is for someone with an x in their name? I am pretty sure I read that somewhere. Organized people - reference? Yes, Forrest had said there was an X in the name of the French soldier. Other than the epitaph on the crude gravestone appropriated from the Sage of Baltimore (yeah, right!), Forrest says he did not retain the name of the soldier other than recalling it had an X in it. |
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Post by me9 on Mar 11, 2020 5:25:01 GMT -5
Forrest, You said you were able to read the name of the French Fallen soldier along with the poem in English below the name, but you never reveal the name in the book. What was the name of this soldier? I been researching this and it might be impossible and may be no reverence to your poem. My thought is you would want this person remembered like you would want to be remembered. ~Shannon Heck Shannon, you just widened one of my largest fault lines. In my haste to get back to the helicopter and leave that place, my effort was expended trying to remember the inscription, and I repeated it over and over. In that process the soldier’s name was not retained. All I remember is that his last name had an x in it. Is it strange that I would remember that? But there are no regrets because now he is my personal Unknown Soldier whose lack of identity stands as a metaphor for all men and women who fell in that ugly war and have now faded from our memory. f mysteriouswritings.com/featured-question-and-weekly-words-x-in-a-name/ |
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Post by lbkgoat on May 27, 2020 16:18:39 GMT -5
After several BOTG, research, much thought and a new finding, I now believe that the aforementioned X is a hint to the eighth clue. I think the eighth clue is as important as the first. Any thoughts? |
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Post by zaphod73491 on May 27, 2020 19:26:20 GMT -5
X is the 24th letter of the alphabet, omega is the 24th (last) letter of the Greek alphabet. So yes: I think X is significant, and 24 poem lines may well connect to both of those letters.
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Post by lbkgoat on May 27, 2020 21:37:17 GMT -5
X is the 24th letter of the alphabet, omega is the 24th (last) letter of the Greek alphabet. So yes: I think X is significant, and 24 poem lines may well connect to both of those letters. Zap, Have you seen the numbers 105 and 90 used by Fenn over the years with anything significant? |
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Post by zaphod73491 on May 28, 2020 2:59:19 GMT -5
X is the 24th letter of the alphabet, omega is the 24th (last) letter of the Greek alphabet. So yes: I think X is significant, and 24 poem lines may well connect to both of those letters. Zap, Have you seen the numbers 105 and 90 used by Fenn over the years with anything significant? At a level of statistical significance, no. The number 50, yes. |
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Post by Jenny on May 29, 2020 7:35:51 GMT -5
X is the 24th letter of the alphabet, omega is the 24th (last) letter of the Greek alphabet. So yes: I think X is significant, and 24 poem lines may well connect to both of those letters. So does 'Omega' mark the spot? |
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Post by goldilocks on May 29, 2020 7:37:42 GMT -5
XXOO...kisses and hugs - double X's, double omegas (boa hug)
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Post by zaphod73491 on May 29, 2020 22:02:31 GMT -5
X is the 24th letter of the alphabet, omega is the 24th (last) letter of the Greek alphabet. So yes: I think X is significant, and 24 poem lines may well connect to both of those letters. So does 'Omega' mark the spot? It does for me, Jenny! |
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