Because he spent his days (and nights) monitoring radio traffic, Juris was well aware of the illegal war spilling out of Viet Nam into Laos and Cambodia: “The Charlies are going mad lately. Not much rhyme or reason to it. They’ll come off the border and work it like the Rio Grande in the old days: hit, and then run across the river, and we can’t go after them. Not that anyone knows where the border really is. And they do go after them, but very much on the sly. Not for publication: I’ve been on their radio a couple of nights, and you have ‘unidentified aircraft’ crossing the border, maybe eight ships at a time. They pick them up on radar. They’ll challenge them over the radio freqs, and you don’t hear anything coming back. So they’ll put up a FAC or something to intercept them, threaten to fire on them. Then you’ll hear the Americans saying ‘Don’t shoot, don’t shoot!’ Oh, crazy war.”