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...never was a 'Kilroy' at all, that he was merely the figment of an American serviceman's imagination. However, historians have since revealed that there most definitely was a Kilroy, in the person of James J. Kilroy, a Massachusetts shipyard inspector who worked for Quincy's Fore River Shipyard (Kilroy 1997). As an inspector (or checker), it was his responsibility to check each ship and count the number of filled riveting holes. As most everything was during the war effort, it was piece work and the inspector's pay was based on the number of rivets counted. Of course, there were always those who could not be relied on to provide accurate counts for their work and would sometimes get paid double and triple of what they should have, taking credit for the work of others. James Kilroy recognized this, and decided that he should be paid for the rivets he counted. For this reason, he started marking each area he counted with the words, "Kilroy was here" to denote that he personally checked that area and should be paid for it, not some dishonest ship inspector (Kilroy 1997). When he inspected crates that were being...