Via CBC News
This is a followup to the story of a week ago, in which 56 year old Allen Abney, who was born in the United States but became a Canadian citizen in 1977, was arrested at a border crossing while trying to enter Idaho from southeastern British Columbia. He was heading for a vacation to Reno, Nevada with his wife when he was taken into custody and sent to Camp Pendleton, where he spent a few days in the brig. Abney deserted the Marines in 1968 after refusing to go to Vietnam. It's been unusual for the military to prosecute desterters from Vietnam, expecially since they were all offered pardons by President Ford in 1974. They may be wanting to send a message to today's young marines. But the Marines did the right and compassionate thing by granting an elderly ex-Marine a Conditional Discharge and buying him a plane ticked to Spokane, where he was picked up by his family.
It's not an entirely happy ending, because while Abney was in custody, his brother died in the hospital, but the Marines hurried his paperwork through.
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