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...Robert Garwood dropped out of high school in Indianapolis at the age of 17, joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a driver. In 1965, just eleven days before he was due to be reassigned, Private First Class Robert Garwood disappeared near Danang. For almost 14 years he remained in Viet Nam-a prisoner, he claimed. He escaped after slipping a note to a Finnish economist in a Hanoi bar, and in March 1979 Garwood returned to the U.S. Home free, he thought. Other P.O.W.s, however, soon accused Garwood of being a deserter and a traitor...
...determined that Garwood should be punished, I hope he has to go to the end of the line and wait his turn while we try Presidents, admirals and generals, along with noncoms, the CIA, civilians and politicians for all the lying, the cruelties, the burning of villages, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the bombing of Cambodia...
...time getting people to fight, and other countries know this." But many draft resisters, slipping into their 30s, also sense their communities' distaste, the snarls of veterans from the nation's more straightforward wars. Still, this month brought at least a modest symbol of reconciliation when Robert Garwood, the Marine private who spent the past 14 years in Viet Nam and may be formally charged with collaborating with the enemy, came home to Greensburg, Ind. His townspeople carefully refrained from passing any judgment on him; they warmly welcomed him back...
...Garwood's attorney, Dermot Foley, claims that his client is "desperately" in need of psychiatric care. "His defense is an absolute denial of the charges," says Foley. "There is no evidence against Bobby. He was held in Viet Nam against his will." Foley says that Garwood was shot during his capture and "surrounded by death" during the 14 years he spent in Viet Nam. "One particular P.O.W. death still overwhelms Bobby," says Foley. "He still has trouble talking about it, but when the story comes out it will greatly help explain what he did during those 14 years...
Pending the outcome of the Navy's official investigation, the Marines have tentatively charged Garwood with desertion, soliciting U.S. combat forces to lay down their arms, and unlawful dealing with the enemy. If he is court-martialed on these charges and convicted, he could be sentenced to death...