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Title: Deserter returns
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on December 06, 2004, 01:13:32 PM

Just wondered if you guys had seen this yet, and what your opinion was on it.



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041213-880222,00.html

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on December 06, 2004, 01:15:08 PM

AOL make you sign in with AOL account.

AOL is suck, you should be ashamed that you have it.
-SW

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on December 06, 2004, 01:19:24 PM

It was the wrong link.  Fixed now.  Work uses AOL for their mail, tis all I have here.  Although I do use it at home too, for various reasons, its not my primary internet at home, and I have a separate log-in for the AOL account usage so I dont have to deal with the add-on crap.

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: Munkii on December 06, 2004, 02:35:13 PM

A very good read.  It's telling of how bad the war in Vietnam was percieved and the pressures the military puts on people that no one really sees unless you've been there.  It also puts into light the Cold War and the oppression of Communism people of my generation have little or no understanding of.

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: Octavius on December 06, 2004, 04:05:48 PM

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When Jenkins arrived at his one-day general court-martial more than seven weeks later, he had won a pretrial agreement in which he would plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy (for the time he spent teaching English). In exchange, his penalty would be a maximum 30 days' confinement, a demotion to private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. Military-law experts assume Jenkins won this relatively lenient treatment in exchange for providing intelligence about North Korean spy programs. Neither Jenkins nor the U.S. government will comment on any such discussions.

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hehe.  

It was a good read.  Too bad he only has a 7th grade education.  No doubt that influenced his decision making at the time of desertion... not to mention the 10 beers in his system.

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: VWE on December 06, 2004, 04:23:39 PM

AlmostOnLine

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 06, 2004, 05:30:23 PM

only had to read the first page.

Desertion,collaboration,lending and and comfort tto the enemy.

He should be stood in front of a firing squad

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: Octavius on December 06, 2004, 06:16:09 PM

Not that it'll change your view or anyone else's, but I would suggest reading the whole thing.

Title: Deserter returns
Post by: SOB on December 06, 2004, 06:40:30 PM

"I didn't read it, but here's my opinion..."  -handsomehunk