Word: harker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question about it," says former Army Staff Sergeant David Harker, who was imprisoned in the camp for 16 months and is now a probation officer in Lynchburg, Va. "He collaborated. He took special favors. I don't know if traitor is the right word. I guess I'd call him a crossover...
...Harker recalls that one night, half a dozen hungry prisoners angered their guards, including Garwood, by butchering and preparing to cook a cat. They were forced to stand at attention until a prisoner named Russ told the Viet Cong that he had killed the cat. The Vietnamese guards then beat and kicked him. Says Harker: "Bob Garwood came up to us and said we were all going to have to pay for what happened to Russ. Bob blamed us for what had happened. He hit me one time in the ribs, but hurt my feelings more than anything else...
...Harker remembers that on another occasion, Garwood brought a chicken to the P.O.W.s. Says Harker: "He was trying to win our favor. He said he had stolen it from a guard. Before he left, he said he wanted the two legs, while the rest of the chicken was shared...
With the war long over, many of Garwood's fellow P.O.W.s feel that he should not be court-martialed. "I dislike what he did, there's no denying that," says Harker. "I don't feel he should get off without a reprimand. I say he should be allowed to go free...
Captain Joe Worth leads a group of four experienced skippers: former captain Jeff Storer, Abbott Reeve, and Doyle, who took the fall off after sailing in Britain this summer for an American Collegiate team. The Crimson lost only one skipper from last year's team-Harker Jaye, who graduated last Spring...