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Originally posted by Gattigap
How do you figure the AP story refutes the Globe, exactly? Is the AP just paying penance for a few days?
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Sorry, I was only dealing with the new stuff that was just released. Sounds like he was a pretty good troop.
As for the Globe stuff - this seems to me to be a rehash of what was discussed last time around. The big thing was, he was supposed to stay active and find a new unit, but he didn't - just like hundreds of others at that time, because Nam was being wound down, and people were not only not being called up, (which was what Bush and the others faced if they didn't continue), but they were releasing actives. There was no point. The military (as the article mentions) wasn't even enforcing those contracts. They were trying to downsize as it was.
What the Globe "discovered" (from docs released long ago) was two signed agreements containing the "I will find my new unit" statement. It's old news - that was the supposition ebhind the discussion anyway.
