{"id":39274,"date":"2014-01-13T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39274"},"modified":"2014-01-13T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:48:32","slug":"karl-twilleager-ptsd-made-him-want-to-blow-up-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39274","title":{"rendered":"Karl Twilleager; PTSD made him want to blow up a bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary sends us the records of one Karl Twilleager who was recently sentenced to five years<\/a> in prison for plotting to blow up a bar in Washington State because his motorcycle club’s rivals frequented the place. The 66-year-old claims that the year that he spent in Vietnam gave him PTSD and his lawyer wrote in a statement to the judge at sentencing that because of the government’s inability to treat veterans when they return from war, we’re all on the verge of bombing stuff, or something;<\/p>\n

James B. Feldman quoted William M. Dulaney who wrote: \u201cWhat seems clear is that neither the American government nor society is attending to the effects of war on such individuals. Indeed it appears that no process exists by which combat veterans are able to assume their role as citizens, as people. Because of this lack of structured re-assimilation into American society, certain combat veterans have created over time a culture in which they are accepted as the people they have become. The outlaw motorcycle club structure can be seen as a society built along militaristic, hierarchal lines, a highly ordered, controlled and black and white world in which individuals may understand their role, their identity, their place in society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Seattle PI<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n

An Army veteran, Twilleager turned to crime after leaving the military following his service in Vietnam. His attorney contended Twilleager and other veterans found the structure of outlaw biker gangs appealing after life in the military.<\/p>\n

Having been convicted of drug crimes in Oregon, Twilleager was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for a 1993 murder in Grant County. Twilleager shot a man three times, loaded his body into the trunk of a car and dumped the remains on a roadside.<\/p>\n

As a convicted felon, he wasn\u2019t allowed to have guns. He also lacked the required federal permits to possess a short-barrel shotgun or explosives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Twilleager spent a year in Vietnam, here are his records, if you need verification;<\/p>\n

\"Twilleager<\/a>
\n\"Twilleager<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

My complaint is that there are thousands of Vietnam veterans and thousands of them belong to motorcycle clubs and they’re not plotting to blow up their rivals or a bar or even an outhouse. I understand that the lawyer needed something to mitigate his client’s bad behavior, but using the blood and minds of millions of veterans to do that is irresponsible.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to judge Twilleager’s time in Vietnam, I wasn’t there and I don’t know if he did anything that would have brought on PTSD. But, that doesn’t give him or his lawyer the right to propagate the crazy vet myth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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