Yea, this was 20 years ago. He was a major influence on my awareness of Palestine. Dude had been very familiar with the groupthink and indoctrination having joined the army to escape it in New York, only to then of course also very much see it from another angle in the army as he got surprised when suddenly 9/11 happened and being in the army wasn't just taking a break and living on base. They tried to force him back for a third tour though and by that point he'd gotten his resolve not to.

They actually let it go a lot easier than he expected after only a few months of being impossible to find. Sounds like they realized how much of a liability someone like that would be to force back into the shit...