Burnpit; “Not a Veteran”
Some guy named Mothax at The Burnpit has a post called Arizona Shootings: when speculation is acceptable…
I was contentedly playing World of Warcraft when I got an in-game message from Demophilius:
“How much are you hoping the shooter isn’t a veteran?”
I had no clue what he was talking about since, like the rest of male Americana save Demophilius, I was watching football. So, I went to my designated homepage, Drudgereport, to see what was up. Sure enough, right there in one of the links at top was the words I feared: “Military Veteran.” Ah $#!^, I thought.
The link took me to a Washington Post article that indeed stated that law enforcement officials stated (anonymously) that they believed the guy was a veteran. Based on past experience, this made me suspect that he wasn’t.
Go read the rest. Thanks to Mothax for heavily quoting me, as much of the blogosphere has done since Sunday.
Category: Veterans Issues
Its bad enough there are all those movies about Nam that make every vet seem absolutely crazy, now you go people looking for truth in that perception
With the very limited knowledge and understanding that I have of PTS or PTSD, I have a gut feeling that any vet suffering from PTSD is more likely to harm himself or commit suicide rather than wilfully take the life of someone else.