"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
James V. McNulty, who as an OBGYN subsequently ushered me into this world in 1952, was a USN physician on a hospital ship off Guam in July 1944. There's no proof that he ever treated der Alte, but it coulda happened.