[marktwain]

He repeated several times that he didn’t want to get involved in this dispute “for obvious reasons”. And then he said, “I don’t know how I allowed myself to be quoted” or pulled into this by the guy that contacted him.

Good work, Elfman2. He may not have wanted the attention, but he can't avoid it now. It seems that AP went to quite a bit of trouble "source shopping" to get his comments. The bit about having spent more than five years total in Vietnam puts up more alarm bells for me. As he has listed a social security number on his contact information, it ought to be very easy to check out his credentials, name change or not.

[BohDaThone]

Those are phone numbers(!!), NOT SSN's. Phone numbers go in groups of 3-3-4; SSN's go 3-2-4. Sheesh!