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J. J.y Volkert, 62 years old, remembers attending a fund-raiser for Mr. Kaine in 2005 and saying he had decided to abandon the Republican Party and vote for Mr. Kaine.
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Volkert later reconstructed what happened from witness accounts: travelling in two cars, the journalists passed a series of government checkpoints; at the last checkpoint, they drove past a roadblock, possibly in the mistaken belief that the front line was still farther down the road, where it had been a few days earlier.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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Rod-man @ Volkert & Associates engineering company
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Volkert notes that there is a certain irony to undertaking such a massive effort to find a handful of bodies in Cambodia.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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In the final section of the book, Volkert conveys the herculean magnitude of the 1992 search for the bodies.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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The next morning, knowing that Syvertsen and Volkert had argued, producer Gerry Miller suggested that Volkert accompany another reporter to Neak Leung, instead of travelling with Syvertsen to Takeo.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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As the search for the lost men nears completion, Volkert reflects on the nature of war reporting:
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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Initially, Volkert imagined that the Cambodians would see the entire task as absurd.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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Competition among the journalists was intense, and Volkert believed that his own boss at CBS, George Syvertsen, was pushing too hard.
Cambodia Book Reviews: A Cambodian Odyssesy and the Deaths of 25 Journalists 2008
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