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...fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while in the Guard. But few journalists, and fewer voters, paid much attention...
...Vietnam combat medals and the eagerness of anti-Bush critics to sling accusations at the President, Bush's National Guard record is under scrutiny. It began with Michael Moore, the flamethrowing documentary filmmaker, labeling Bush a "deserter." Then Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party chairman, leveled the less serious AWOL charge...
...confident offense that mercilessly pounded Holy Cross into submission one week ago may have mysteriously gone AWOL for most of the first half, but the defense was undeniably in attendance from the opening kickoff...
...died while Arnold was living in the U.S., he did not return for the funeral. He has said variously that he was too deep into his training or that he was hospitalized. He had long since made his escape from home by way of bodybuilding. At 19 he went AWOL from his Austrian army base to enter a competition that he won. At 20 he won the first of five Mr. Universe titles, the hypertrophies of the sport. By that time, Schwarzenegger was literally a self-made man, exploring ways to reach hard-to-perfect areas of his body...
WORLD WAR II Dissenting Voices The war was popular, but there were 40,000 deserters. In 1945 a U.S. general estimated 13,000 troops were AWOL in Paris, many running black-market goods to the front lines...