The following quotes are extracts from the direct , cross , re-direct and re-cross examinations of the witnesses whose testimony is part of the 60 page, SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE.

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1 - SSG John E. PETERSON, USMC, HQ and Svce BTN, 2nd Force Support Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

"We served in the same unit, the same platoon. ... I knew Robert GARWOOD fairly well."

"Private GARWOOD's duties were that of a driver; one of the platoon drivers."

"PFC GARWOOD was not part of the unit when it went to Vietnam. He was left behind to go back to the United States for medical treatment."

"There were a couple of incidents leading up to why he was going back for medical treatment. One was a liberty incident. ... (we) were in a taxi. We thought the MP's were behind us, so in order to get out of the taxicab, we paid off the driver and had the cab slow down at a certain point... and we were going to jump. ... when GARWOOD jumped he landed on his feet and then on his knees; then head first into a farmer's stone wall and cut his head. (we) picked him up and carried him off into the woods and over the fence. GARWOOD had struck the wall with his head."

"There were some other incidents. In the barracks one night, GARWOOD supposedly fell out of his rack and hit his head on the foot locker. There was also another night where he supposedly - he had an unbearable pain - was hitting his head against the wall locker, and a couple of guys had to pull him off."

"I have no personal knowledge of the incidents concerning the wall locker and the foot locker. ... I only heard about them."

"PFC GARWOOD kept going to sick bay to be checked out, and he had headaches and stuff like that kept him off the road - 'dizziness'. His complaints of headaches were common knowledge down in the motor pool. "

"I cannot recollect one on one Robert GARWOOD telling me at any time he had headaches. It was just common knowledge of having headaches and stuff. It is my statement that everybody among this group of people who lived and worked together was aware of those particular symptoms and difficulties."

"I know nothing really about the medical treatment that he received other than ... he was supposed to be going to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. He was supposed to be going there for the head injury - some kind of eye damage of some sort. As far as I know he wasn't sent to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego."

"I saw GARWOOD in Vietnam. He arrived a month and a half or a couple of months after we did. I don't know whether or not he was ever sent to Balboa Hospital. GARWOOD had been to our motor pool a day or two before he was captured and that was the last I heard of him until he returned to the States. He did not say whether or not he had gone to the States for medical treatment. He said he was still waiting to go back to the States for treatment."

"To my knowledge the headaches and other complaints which PFC GARWOOD had affected his ability to continue working as he had before. There were times he had to be pulled off the road as a driver because if you're having headaches and vision problems you can't very well be on the road."

"To my recollection I never saw PFC GARWOOD act in any bizarre manner in Okinawa. While in Vietnam, I personally saw him about four or five times. To my recollection he did not complain of headaches to me on those occasions."

" I heard about him banging his head against a wall locker. ... The guys that were there said that PFC GARWOOD had said that the pain was so unbearable that he was trying to get it out of his head. ... He never did anything during this period that I was with him in Okinawa that led me to believe that he was different from any of the other young Marines that I hung around with in terms of his behavior.

END OF DEFENSE CASE