"WalterM140" wrote in message
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Well, it turns out that no one collected Trudeau's $10,000.


No one was ever going to collect it.



CASE CLOSED: Four weeks ago, "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau announced
in
his cartoon strip the "Bush Guard Service" contest: "We're offering
$10,000
cash to any witness who can definitively corroborate Mr. Bush's claim"
that
three decades before he became President, he served in the Alabama
National
Guard. "So if you served with Mr. Bush - even if only in the officers'
club -
we want to hear from you right now! Why? So we can put this trash story to
rest
and get back to the real issues." Well, it turns out that no credible
witness
has come forward to claim the prize, so this week Trudeau mailed a
personal
check for $10,000 to the USO. "We're extremely grateful for his
generosity,"
USO Vice President John Hansen told me yesterday. But has Trudeau's check
cleared? "Oh, I think he's good for it."

-- Lloyd Grove in the New York Daily News 3/19/04


At least one member of that unit did come forward and stated he remembered
Bush performing office work.