[Mitch]

By the way - I listened to that 90 minute + broadcast. Listened to what the guy had to say regarding the Oklahoma Bridge collapse. To say the least, this guy should have probably started off about fifteen minutes earlier that day - or just stayed in bed.

Had he been 15 minutes earlier – he would probably be dead, the 15th victim. Had he stayed in bed, he would not have arrived at the scene prior to most of the first responders and he would have been kept well away.

Turns out, he was just a dude driving from California to Missouri to visit his Grandmother when he pulled up on the scene of the accident. He said that from the roadway – you could not see the bridge out at all because you had to drive up the elevated approach to the bridge – thus anyone going that way, would not have been able to stop until it was too late.

His story was that after being stopped at the approach to the bridge by a state trooper, he just parked his car and walked down to the river to see if he could help out. He claims lots of stuff from this point on, about helping rescue a woman and her daughter, about being picked up by a fishing boat and eventually being taken to a site a ways down the river where authorities were making a Command Center. He said that all this time, he did not have on that Uniform – which was in his car.

One of ironies that has caused a lot of “Conspiracy Theory” speculations is that there really was an Army Captain traveling that morning – a CPT Clements. He had sent his family on ahead on a PCS move and was just driving alone that morning - on his way to Virginia. Apparently – some of the guys in the fishing boat – found the Captains briefcase and for whatever reason, they gave it to our guy Clark. Probably because they wanted to stay in the boat and he had a car – don’t know. Clark says he opened the brief case and laid all the papers out to dry and of course he read them – it mainly contained PCS orders and medical records.

He claims that he eventually got mad because the State Troopers were not allowing any divers into the water due to the current – so, he claims that he felt that if he put on that uniform - which he had in his car he could take charge of the situation and force State Troopers to allow the divers to dive. So he retrieved his bogus (SF Captains Uniform, with a Green Beret from the 10th Group) and took charge.

Apparently that last bit of the story is true – because that is what he was eventually arrested and convicted for. AMEN

Other things he did while wearing uniform is to call the “Dead Captains” wife on the phone and tell her that he had her husband’s belongings (unbelievable). He called the Captain’s Unit and told them that the Captain had apparently died and that he was a Captain in the Army himself and asked for Instructions – they apparently hooked him up to people in the Pentagon – he said. He claims to have had conversations with several officials who were seeking details.

By the way - he claims that he got the Uniform from a friend at Ft. Carson - and he used it to shop for cheeper stuff at the PX - among other things. Can't see this guy having any friends - but that is what he said. Also - in my opinion - I think he put on the uniform from the moment he decided to walk down to the river - he says he didn't but that makes more sense - it would also explain why the guys in the boat turned the documents over to him.

Anyway – that is how he got involved in Oklahoma, and that is partly how he got to where he is today. Not to say he would not have eventually ended up in jail in Alaska anyway had he stayed in bed that morning? But for sure, he could have done himself and all the rest of us a great service by getting an earlier start that morning - say about 15 minutes.