"Details emerge about Stryker soldier charged in slaying" 3rd murder

[nannah]

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050716/NEWS/507160311

of wife by soldier returning from IRAQ at Ft. Lewis, WA. Do we count these wives as victims of war on IRAQ. What are the statistics at other military bases on murders by returning vets. This is not an effort to villify returning vets, but to show how diverse and wide spread are the "casualties of war"; how permanently life shattering for so many people.



Details emerge about Stryker soldier charged in slaying

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


"FORT LEWIS -- The arrrest Tuesday of a Stryker soldier was the third time in the past two years that a Washington-based soldier back from Iraq has been accused of killing his wife... snip

Spc. Brandon Bare, 19, of Wilkesboro, N.C., is being held at the Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Lewis after the discovery of the body of his wife, Nabila Bare, 18, at the couple's home in the Clarkdale housing area on the post south of Tacoma."

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Bare is charged with premeditated murder in the death of his wife.

He was being treated for head injuries received in a bomb explosion in Iraq. for which he earned a Purple Heart. The injuries left him with hearing difficulties and other problems. Miguel Lorian, who helped rear Bare in North Carolina said, "He came back here about a month ago to visit, and he was different. He was not all right."

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Other Murder convictions of returning Ft. Lewis soldiers:

"Army Reserve Sgt. Matthew J. Denni, 39, of Battle Ground, was convicted in February of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the shooting of his wife, Kimberly Faye Denni, 37, in November 2003."

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"Last month Sgt. 1st Class James Kevin Pitts, 32, of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years for first-degree murder in the bathroom drowning of his wife, Tara Pitts, 28. She was killed in April 2004 weeks after Pitts returned to Fort Lewis after serving Iraq."

[Joey Liberal]

1. They are in the 'Army of One'

Ft. Bragg has had its fair share of these types of murders.

[saigon68]

7. Pitts, 32, of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years for first-de

The Rustics are trained to kill---

Then they, like robots, continue after they leave Rag-Headland.

[Barrett808]

2. I saw a convoy of these guys on I-5 about two years ago

There were maybe 20 Strykers spaced out on the freeway. They waved as we passed them. I remember wondering how many of them would be back.

This was after the post-invasion euphoria, but still in the days when you just didn't suggest the possibility of an insurgency. It didn't occur to me at the time that some of these guys would be returning in a murderous PTSD rage.

[nannah]

3. To me, these incidents show the spreading sadness and misery that

engulfs people caught in war on either side. Like ripples in a pond, the grief keeps spreading.

[Barrett808]

8. True enough

It made me really sad when we drove by those kids.

[pfitz59]

4. Just the tip of the iceberg......

No one can do what these folks have done and be unaffected. F-ing Chickenhawks pat themselves on the backs, and get bonus pay while soldiers and their families bear the true cost. Jim Mcdermott warned of this, but the assholes in Congress shook their collective heads and laughed. The BFEE, and its Congressional enablers will go down as the greatest war criminals in US history.

[ismnotwasm]

5. When my daughter came home from Afghanistan

Through a very roundabout route, can't remember all the countries she stopped in--She was at the airport, very close to my husband and I, who were taking care of her son during her deployment. They would not allow the soldiers to deplane in the US "because we have weapons" according to my daughter. They got to get of the plane in fucking Ireland, for god sakes. She said the Irish bought them shots of liqueur and treated them really well, and they're not even involved in the war. So what the the US know about their returning soldiers, do you suppose? That they're going to have to fight for health care, mental health care, that symptoms of PTSD are going to be ignored or denied until they're so goddam sick it's nearly impossible to treat them?

[nannah]

6. when * was describing the sacrifice of making war on Iraq

and he said the sacrifice was worth it, I thought sure, you would say that because for you there has been no sacrifice, only profit. ask the families of those who died, or the soldiers who came home wounded. ask them if it has been worth it. they are the only ones who have any right to evaluate the worth of it all.