Who are you, who's your father, who sent the e-mail? Sorry, e-mails shouldn't be threads unless you have a lot of verification fodder.
This was only interesting to me in that I am just 3 Bacon factors from Udell. My father was a Capt. in the USAF and commanded a B-52 squadron, his friend who received the email directly from Udell is a longtime friend and known quantity. Udell has come forward and his comments can be found in various places. Here are two articles, one of them from the Washington Post that make his statements public. Go Udell!
http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/002441.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60817-2004Feb21?language=printer