{"id":57181,"date":"2014-12-18T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57181"},"modified":"2014-12-17T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:15:34","slug":"that-crazed-vet-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57181","title":{"rendered":"That crazed vet thing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> writes about how terrible vets are, using Bradley Stone, the crazy ginger from Pennsylvania as an example;<\/p>\n

While the vast majority of veterans, studies show, resume peaceful lives upon returning from the front, some turn to violent crime at higher-than-average rates.<\/p>\n

Middle East war vets who struggle with PTSD and alcohol are seven times more likely than a healthy veteran to engage in acts of \u201csevere violence,\u201d according to a University of North Carolina School of Medicine study done with the cooperation of the Department of Veterans affairs.<\/p>\n

According to court records obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stone had been arrested twice for drunk driving and was taking medications as part of mental health treatment. During his testimony after his 2013 arrest, he claimed to be fully disabled by PTSD, in what he testified was a combat-related ailment. Taking pity on Stone, the judge allowed him to go into a Veteran’s Treatment Program instead of going to jail or having to pay a large fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing is that, despite Stone’s claims, he wasn’t rated as disabled by the VA, in fact the VA and the Marines say that there’s no record of Stone being injured or even witnessing any combat during his grueling four months in Iraq. CSM goes on to admit that Stone was a “combat meteorologist” – the weather forecasting must’ve been traumatic in Iraq.<\/p>\n

But other witnesses say they saw a difference in the man who returned from Iraq.<\/p>\n

Lisa Andrey, a neighbor of Ms. Stone’s mother, Patricia Hill, who also was killed on Monday, told the Philadelphia Inquirer: “He was a great guy and an excellent father. And then he went away to Iraq and came back and was a completely different man.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Four months of predicting weather in the sandbox, never hearing a shot fired in anger made him a completely different man. Got that? Just being in Iraq is so traumatic that it makes you hate your wife and kill her and everyone related to her. Except that he wasn’t so crazy that he killed his kids.<\/p>\n

It sounds to me that Stone was just using his brief time in Iraq as an excuse to be a bad man. It’s what the civilians expected, so he played the role to the hilt. The article says that his ex-wife that Stone killed told the police that she thought he would do bad things, the police say that he was on their radar, but that’s as far as it went. I noticed the article doesn’t mention a protective order. A protective order might have got Stone’s guns taken from him and prevented him from buying more, but we’ll never know.<\/p>\n

I guess it’s too easy to say that his military service and his four months in Iraq caused this, but the facts remain that he’d been battling his ex-wife for years, as opposed to four months predicting the weather in Iraq – they’ve been divorced for five years and locked in combat over custody of their children.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, CSM mentions that this happened just weeks after Eric Frein was catured after his manhunt – emphasizing that Frein was a “war re-enactor” as if pretending to be an East German soldier somehow caused his murder of a State trooper. It must be the uniforms that cause PTS episodes – right before their mention of Frein, they tell us that Stone was wearing “military fatigues”.<\/p>\n

Did anyone else notice that no one is telling us what job he’s had since he left the Marine Reserves? I assume that if he was in the Reserves, he had another job, but none of the media are calling him a janitor at MacDonald’s or a financial planner, or whatever job he’s held recently. Every news story starts out “Iraq veteran” even though that is the briefest portion of his life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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