HoustonChronicle.com - Files shed light on Bush Guard service: "But the documents released Friday indicated Bush's transfer to the Alabama squadron wasn't approved until September 1972, months after Bush's presence as recalled by Calhoun.

Emily Marks Curtis, who said she dated Bush in 1972 when both worked on the Blount campaign, said she had a clear recollection of Bush returning to Alabama in the weeks after the fall election so he could attend Guard meetings.

'He had left Montgomery and had gone back to Texas,' she said. 'Then he called and told me he was coming back to Montgomery to do his Guard duty and asked if we could see each other.'

She said she didn't see Bush at the Alabama squadron's base, but 'I can say categorically he left Montgomery, then came back for what he said were Guard meetings.' "