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...teachers at Dexter High School remember him as having one or two friends but also, as one puts it, "some exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that time. He also brought his fascination with secret places with him. History teacher Hank Flandysz remembers lecturing one day when a noise emanated from beneath the floorboards. "I walked over, and there was a trapdoor in the floor that led into some maintenance tunnels for access to the heating pipes," he says. "The trapdoor lifted up, and there looking up at me was Mark Koernke...
...Flandysz taught Koernke in three classes, and remembers him as unusually argumentative about politics in his senior year, although not disrespectful or "hurtful." He divined a strong libertarian, anti-government cast to the student's beliefs but also a more conventional conservatism: Koernke rued Richard Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Around this time he told at least one family member he wanted to "go to Vietnam, get shot and come home a hero...
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