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...accept the consequences or attempt somehow to flee. He chose the latter option. In the wee hours of Jan. 5, 1965, having downed 10 cans of beer a few hours earlier, Jenkins, then 24, made his move. At first he stuck to his routine, taking command of a dawn patrol near the DMZ. But at about 2:30 a.m., he told his men he was going to check on something up ahead. He disappeared down a hill and never returned. It would be nearly 40 years before he would return to face the U.S. military...
...fought off our sleepiness (it was 9 a.m., practically the crack of dawn) by musing over the possible reasons we’d stayed away so long...
...notes are color-coded [and] filed according to topic, data, and the direction of the wind on the date that they were first taken. My file cabinet must face due East so that the cleansing touch of the Rosy Fingered Dawn will excise the mediocrity of my peers from my papers...
...turn himself in. As he made his way toward the border, he tied a white T shirt over the muzzle of his M-14 rifle and traipsed for several hours through the bitter cold, stepping lightly so as not to trip a land mine. Not long after dawn, Jenkins came upon a 3-m-high fence. A North Korean soldier spotted him and alerted his comrades, and they whisked Jenkins inside. The American says he realized almost immediately that he had made a mistake...
...jeeps behind us were all washed away." Then came a landslide of mud clotted with felled trees that had yet to be hauled to the sawmill. "The road was blocked by logs and debris and there was nonstop rain." The passengers slept in the jeepney that night, and at dawn Bantucan and her mother walked the remaining distance to their town. By the time the storms had moved away from the Quezon coast late last week, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing...