In a Pentagon hallway hung an austere portrait of a Navy man lost at sea in 1908, with his brass buttons, blue-knit uniform and what looks like meticulously blow-dried hair.
Wait. Blow-dried hair?
The portrait of Ensign Chuck Hord
, framed in the heavy gilt typical of government offices, may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history. Chuck Hord
can’t be found in Navy records of the day. It isn’t even a real painting. The textured, 30-year-old photo is actually of Captain Eldridge Hord III, 53 years old, known to friends as Tuck
, a military retiree with a beer belly and greying hair who lives in Burke, Virginia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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