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...Garwood's Guilt...
...former rifleman in Viet Nam, I cannot condone what Robert Garwood did [Feb. 16]. However, a Government that can forgive draft dodgers who went to Canada and Jane Fonda, who made broadcasts against the war from Hanoi, should be compassionate enough to understand someone who was so psychologically affected by the war that he collaborated with the other side...
Nearly 13 weeks after his trial began, Garwood, now 34, was found guilty last week by a jury of five Viet Nam veterans at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was convicted of collaboration and of assaulting an American prisoner. Gustav Mehrer, one of the nine former P.O.W.s called by the prosecution, testified that Garwood kept a stack of propaganda leaflets, wore an enemy uniform and held a rifle. Said Mehrer: "His actions were Vietnamese. He would hum and giggle like them. He would squat. He was a white Vietnamese...
Defense Attorney John Lowe claimed that Garwood was driven insane by Vietnamese torture and eventually came to identify with his captors. Countered the chief prosecutor, Major Werner Hellmer: "We are not dealing here with insanity, but with a smokescreen...
...Garwood faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and forfeiture of $147,000 in back pay, but plans to appeal. He once told a reporter that he was prepared for the worst: "An American prison is better than a Vietnamese prison...