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The Curious Case of Ketron Island

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    • A view of Ketron Island, Wash., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. CREDIT: Jovelle Tamayo for Sunday Long Read

    Bob Barrett was not going to Vietnam. 

    Instead, like the thousands of other Americans who objected to the war but couldn’t avoid the draft, he went to jail. During the 13 months and 9 days served of his 18-month sentence on Washington State’s McNeil Island, he gazed across Puget Sound at orca pods meandering between two nearby islands, Anderson and Ketron.

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