Looking at the muffin stamps that I collected on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in pursuit of The 19, I noticed that the date on the Korean War Veterans Memorial stamp I got is Jan 21 2007.

This particular passport cancellation stamp was at the Lincoln Memorial bookstore, with 3 other correctly dated stamps (look at its neighbor to the right). However, for at least 21 days in 2008, this stamp has probably been stuck a year in the past. For all I know, it still is.

Now, this isn’t as bad as the situation at the Brunswick, Maryland, C&O Canal visitor center, where time stopped on Dec 31 2004 or 2005 (I forget which) because no one has sent them a new stamp that can cancel passports into the future. I’ll have to look to see if I wrote in the year or wrote over the last digit while I was there. I should have gotten one of the rangers to verify my visit with their initials.

Still, only the desperately lazy will argue that this stamp doesn’t count.