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Archive Home > 2008 > April > 24 > ‘Hero’ deserter

‘Hero’ deserter


April 24, 2008

I just read “U.S. soldier, ‘reluctant Communist’ and a hero in Japan” in the April 7 edition of The Bulletin. The story was about Charles Robert Jenkins. He was an Army sergeant who deserted to North Korea in 1965. I remember that event well.

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