Neville's son volunteers and lands at Guadalcanal

Neville tells how his son, having read a little book about Guadalcanal and fallen in love with the natives' sun-bleached headdresses, volunteered at seventeen right after Pearl Harbor and was among the first ashore at Guadalcanal — and did not enjoy it, but had asked for it.
Date (happened)
c. December 1941
probable
  1. c. December 1941 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 3 claims agree on c. 1941-12: passage:537464; passage:538751; node:1336.
  2. c. December 1941 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Conception ¶29"at the age of seventeen…right after Pearl Harbor", told in Conception (nid 1336)
  3. before 1968 bound · possible
    Source Brazen Impudence ¶50qualifying source passages 538751; telling lecture nids 1380
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [538751] belong to telling lecture nids [1380]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  4. before 11 March 1968 bound
    Source Conceptiontelling lecture nid 1336, certain delivery 1968-03-11
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-03-11.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1336 (certain delivery 1968-03-11); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1968-03-11 on nid 1336 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim, and MIN was taken across this event's 2 certain told dates. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Place
Guadalcanal
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. 11 March 1968 stated
    Source ConceptionConception (nid 1336), telling 1336-6, told 1968-03-11
  2. 27 September 1968 stated
    Source Brazen ImpudenceBrazen Impudence (nid 1380), telling 1380-13, told 1968-09-27
  3. 11 March 1968 estimated · probable
    Source delivery claim d1 on lecture nid 2188, chrome dateline '03-11-1968', probable
    Why The son's actual wartime experience at Guadalcanal has no date marker anywhere in this passage.
    Reasoning Neville tells the Guadalcanal anecdote (passage 555146) within lecture nid 2188; its most specific delivery claim (d1) reads 1968-03-11 from a chrome dateline at probable confidence, consistent with the confirmed bound of on/after 1968-03-06 (d0). d1's own note admits an unresolved question about whether this dateline is genuinely this node's own or entangled with its field_variant_of sibling nid 1336, so the derived telling date is capped at probable, matching d1's ceiling.
Sources

Source

  • Conception ¶29 (Well, at the age of seventeen he volunteered, right after Pearl Harbor, and he was one of the first ashore in Guadalcanal.)
  • Brazen Impudence ¶50 (I know my son told me…I said, what on earth possessed you to volunteer for the Marines in the 2nd World War? This is after five years in the Marines.)
  • Conception ¶29 (My son actually put himself into the state of war by reading a book about Guadalcanal and falling in love with the pictures of the natives there!)