Info for Recruiters and their targets
“I thank George Bush for making my son a killing machine,” the father of a soldier who is said to have confessed to killing his wife in Lakewood said on Thursday at his home in Ohio. “All he could talk about was how many people he killed over there and how easy he could do it,” James Pitts Sr. said. “He said he ran over kids and everything over there. . . . He went to Iraq, and he was fine. He came back a monster. How many more monsters are going to come back?”
Altogether since 2003, there have been seven homicides and three suicides on Western Washington soil involving active troops or veterans of Iraq, based on an accounting of medical examiner, military, and news reports. Fives wives, a girlfriend, and one child have been slain.
Army Spc. Thomas R. Stroh, 21, strangled his wife, Brittany Stroh, 17, and son Dylan Stroh, 2, at their Fort Lewis home. He later committed suicide driving head-on into a semi truck in Oregon.
During the summer of 2002, four soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, killed their wives — and three of them killed themselves. Three of the four men had been taking Lariam before their suicides…
Nine days after Pfc. Stephen S. Sherwood, 35, came home to cheering crowds at a welcoming ceremony at the post near Colorado Springs, neighbors reported hearing gunshots at the Fort Collins home he shared with his wife of seven years, Sara E. Sherwood, 30.
An autopsy Thursday evening found Sherwood shot his wife five times in the head and neck with a pistol before killing himself with a shotgun blast to the head.
I suppose there’s lots of Americans committing murder/suicides and the army is no exception…. or is something happening to people after they join the army that makes them more violent, like the notorius Anthrax shots?
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