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Well,

It's been 38 years. He's old. He regrets his actions or at least pretends to.

What should we do? He’s no NAZI war criminal that executed thousands. He didn’t do any evil onto others per say.

I think at this point the only right thing to do is to publicly humiliate him. Show his face, his name and publicly disclose what he did. Let him live the rest of his life with a paper bag over his head. Besides, he’s been living the life of a semi exiled criminal for these 38 years. Going further than public humiliation would be to make ourselves into the bad guys here.

Excuse me. Somebody had to replace this dipsh*t when he deserted. We don't know what happened to THAT guy. Maybe he didn't get orders to 'Nam. Quite likely he did, 'cause the U.S military wasn't going to play one short when Mr. Abney chose to desert.

If he went, maybe he came back OK. Maybe he came back wounded, or psychologically scarred. Maybe he came home in a coffin under a flag. We don't know. So we don't know if his actions did "any evil unto others per se".

What we do know is that an individual who VOLUNTARILY ENLISTED, DESERTED in wartime. The UCMJ has quite specific provisions for that, and he should have been thrown in the brig for five years. Yeah, it's "been 38 years", but I don't favor rewarding his criminal actions because of time, and one of the reasons he's old is that he took himself out of any potential line of fire by fleeing to Canada.

I volunteered. I served. I lost friends. So, if wanting this clown punished makes me the bad guy, I can live with that . I was called a lot worse back in the day by Abney's comrades.

And here's a question. Did Abney, on any of his many vacation trips back to Vegas, or the States, ever take a side trip to the Wall in D.C, and visit his betters? I doubt it. And I doubt he thought about honor, regrets, or any of that good stuff until the moment the Immigration folks pulled him over, and he knew the jig was up.