We don't know Erin's birthday is, but we do have an approximation: in GFA, BJ was trying to get home in time for Erin's second birthday. This was after the Memorial Day* trip to the beach (the one that ended with the bus trip), and before the armistice was signed on July 27th. So there's really only a two month window there to start with. And it couldn't have been too close to Memorial Day (because Hawkeye was already in the hospital, and I think had been there for a while, when BJ came to fail to say goodbye, when he thought he was going home), nor could it have been too close to the end of the war (because Hawkeye was out of the hospital before the end of the war, I think by a bit, and again, BJ came to fail to say goodbye to him when he was inside). So, her birthday HAS to be in June or July, and is PROBABLY somewhere between mid-June and mid-July.
And when I get home, I shall rewatch GFA and see if I can pull anything more concrete out of it. Because, really, I have no actual life. :-)
*Note: Memorial Day was Saturday, May 30th in 1953; it wasn't until 1971 that it was moved to always being on a Monday.
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Date: 2010-04-12 09:51 pm (UTC)fail tosay goodbye, when he thought he was going home), nor could it have been too close to the end of the war (because Hawkeye was out of the hospital before the end of the war, I think by a bit, and again, BJ came tofail tosay goodbye to him when he was inside). So, her birthday HAS to be in June or July, and is PROBABLY somewhere between mid-June and mid-July.And when I get home, I shall rewatch GFA and see if I can pull anything more concrete out of it. Because, really, I have no actual life. :-)
*Note: Memorial Day was Saturday, May 30th in 1953; it wasn't until 1971 that it was moved to always being on a Monday.