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The man with no memory: Navy vet wakes up, speaks only Swedish (updated info at CNN)
CNN ^ | July 16, 2013 | Elizabeth Cohen,

Posted on 07/17/2013 2:20:31 AM PDT by Innovative

Today, the 61-year-old man says he has come to terms with the name "Michael Boatwright," but only because doctors told him he should.

He still feels like Johan Ek from Sweden.

Her mission: Help Boatwright figure out who he is.

She first contacted the military.

Among the IDs police discovered on him was one from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He'd served from 1971 to 1973 in the Navy as an aviation mechanic.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: amnesia; boatwright; ek; johanek; michaelboatwright; navyvet
Social worker Lisa Hunt-Vasquez has been digging into his past to help him -- he seems to have quite an interesting past, that she has been able to track down, though it doesn't seem to jog his memory. Please read the article for all the interesting details.

Previous articles didn't have all the details of his past.

1 posted on 07/17/2013 2:20:31 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

I love these really short paragraphs.

And I can’t explain why.


2 posted on 07/17/2013 2:26:13 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: Innovative

Sounds like a movie plot, “The Boatwright Identity”.


3 posted on 07/17/2013 2:35:24 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Innovative

You are not Barry Soetoro; you are Barack Obama.

You are not Muslim; you are Christian.

You are not a Communist; you are a Democrat.

You hate the US; no getting around that.


4 posted on 07/17/2013 2:58:22 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: Innovative

Vad?


5 posted on 07/17/2013 4:05:49 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Innovative

The background info on this guy is very interesting, but it doesn’t say when he learned Swedish.


6 posted on 07/17/2013 4:35:15 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Innovative

Could he speak Swedish before this happened?


7 posted on 07/17/2013 4:40:54 AM PDT by Gamecock (Member: NAACAC)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Well, if he ran a consulting firm in Sweden in the Eighties, I’d say he had learned Swedish by that time...


8 posted on 07/17/2013 4:46:50 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Gamecock

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbc/home/chef.html


9 posted on 07/17/2013 5:03:44 AM PDT by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: ari-freedom
"Just the facts ma'am"

You are suffering from a severe case of Dragnet deprivation.

That is all.

10 posted on 07/17/2013 5:04:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Innovative
Living a past life?
11 posted on 07/17/2013 5:20:11 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: ari-freedom

ha. I was taught that one sentence doesn’t make a paragraph. Apparently the rules have changed


12 posted on 07/17/2013 5:22:43 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Innovative

this dude is clearly the Swedish guy and the actual Michael Boatwright set him up to be him so the actual Michael Boatwright could vanish. Why would you believe some social worker over your own memory?


13 posted on 07/17/2013 5:40:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Innovative

14 posted on 07/17/2013 5:40:27 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: dinodino
Well, if he ran a consulting firm in Sweden in the Eighties, I’d say he had learned Swedish by that time...

One of the techniques and hazards of speed reading is that you scan keywords and sometimes miss big chunks of info. My bad.

15 posted on 07/17/2013 6:03:55 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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