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Freed Army deserter says he has no regrets
Robin Long, an Army private court-martialed for desertion after he refused to fight in Iraq, said Friday that he has no regrets, even after spending the past year in the brig at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
"I wouldn't do anything differently," he said at a morning news conference outside the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park.
Wearing both an Army camouflage hat and a T-shirt decorated with a large peace symbol, Long said his imprisonment was "the hardest thing I've ever had to do," largely because it kept him away from his common-law wife and 3-year-old son in Canada.
"But I had to do what I felt was right."