Word: michigans
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...same time, however, Koernke's college career derailed. Nancy Koernke attributes this to the effect of nasa cutbacks in the mid-'70s. "He didn't seem as happy after that," she says. "At first his grades had been really good, but [then] they started to decline." Koernke left Eastern Michigan and the rotc and never made use of the University of Michigan scholarship...
Days after the birth, Koernke joined the 70th Division (training), U.S. Army Reserve based in Livonia, Michigan. Later, as he climbed the ladder of the Patriot right, he traded heavily on his purported military-intelligence experience, calling himself an "intelligence analyst and counterintelligence coordinator" with a top-secret clearance, and afterward the commander of two "special-warfare" brigades used to "train U.S. military in foreign warfare and tactics." However, judging from a summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school...
That must have galled Koernke; so must the unglamorous civilian job he took in 1982, and still holds, as a maintenance worker at the University of Michigan, where he had once expected to study. But by then an event had already occurred-or was reported to have occurred-that would change his life forever...
Mark extended his research beyond secondary sources to legislators, whom he called repeatedly to help document secret language hidden in otherwise innocuous bills that he felt was eroding the intent of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He rang Michigan Senator Carl Levin's office four or five times a week, says Nancy. At least one lawmaker apparently felt harassed. Nancy reports that Mark's first visit from the FBI was prompted by the phone calls...
Then in 1991, says Nancy, she and Mark attended a rally in Birch Run, Michigan, for the presidential campaign of America First Populist Party candidate and right-wing avatar James ("Bo") Gritz. The featured speaker was to be Gritz's vice-presidential running mate, Cyril Minett, but he failed to show. Participants, taking shelter from a pouring rain, began talking politics. Koernke started running through his theories and soon, says Nancy, "he was asked, you know, 'Get up there and talk.' So they pretty much pushed him up there, and he just kind of fell into it and started talking...