Canadian held for deserting U.S. marines in 1968
`A B.C. man spent the weekend detained at a military base in California after being arrested for deserting the U.S. Marine Corps four decades ago during the Vietnam War.
Allen Abney, who was born in the United States but became a Canadian citizen in 1977, was arrested at a border crossing on Thursday while trying to enter Idaho from southeastern British Columbia. [..]
He and his wife were on their way for a holiday in Reno, Nev., when U.S. officials accused him of desertion and took him into custody.
In 1968, Abney was a 19-year-old marine when he fled to Canada because he didn’t want to fight in Vietnam.’
