Monday, March 19, 2012
The victimization of Sgt Bales.
It has begun, with news outlets spinning at tornado speed to let us know he was a good family man. He always tried to do right.
Michelle Caddell, 48, who knew Sergeant Bales when he was growing up, watched a video clip of the news over and over and over again, mesmerized by disbelief. “I wanted to see, maybe, a different face,” she said, fighting back tears. “Because that’s not our Bobby. Something horrible, horrible had to happen to him.”And life piled up so much on him that he snapped. But he didn't really snap because then he would have murdered 16 of his buddies. No, he raged and his rage made him walk a half a mile in the dark to break into two houses and kill everyone he saw. And he had enough realization of what he did to try and burn the evidence. But in the end he will be "our Bobby", one of us. And the 16 Afghan victims will be just a bunch of wogs over there. And we will care so much for him and so little for the wogs that we will not ask who else was with him when he went for a nighttime walk.
Friends, relatives and his lawyer say they have an idea of what that horrible thing was: war.
Three deployments in Iraq, where he saw heavy fighting, and a fourth in Afghanistan, where he went reluctantly, left him struggling financially, in danger of losing his home.
And there were more direct impacts. During his deployments, Sergeant Bales, 38, lost part of a foot and injured his head, saw fellow soldiers badly wounded, picked up the bodies of dead Iraqis, was treated for mild traumatic brain injury and possibly developed post-traumatic stress disorder, his lawyer and military officials said.
But there are also glimpses of a darkness in his personal life. Sergeant Bales’s past includes an arrest on a misdemeanor charge of assault on a woman, which was dropped after he completed anger-management counseling; an accident in which he overturned his car, something he attributed to falling asleep at the wheel; and an accumulation of rejections and disappointments.
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Oh, but I have at my place, sweetie.
Too many inconvenient facts surround this simple story.
And none of them add up.
Love ya,
S
End All the Wars!!!!!!!!!!
Too many inconvenient facts surround this simple story.
And none of them add up.
Love ya,
S
End All the Wars!!!!!!!!!!
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