Iraq veteran's family say he's a victim of PTSD, not a criminal

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http://www.lufkindailynews.com/hp/content/region/ETtoday/stories/2007/03/25/miles.html

NACOGDOCHES — On a Friday morning two weeks ago, Paul Miles sat alone in a federal courtroom. snip

Serving in the National Guard in Iraq has put him where he is now, in jail, being punished by the government he once fought for, his family says.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found a bomb fashioned with PVC pipe and gunpowder in Paul's Nacogdoches apartment, last November. They also found marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.

After a two-week stay in a mental-health facility, Paul was arrested and charged with six felonies, including arson, a charge connected with the September pipe-bombing of a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a Catholic chapel near the SFA campus.

His friends and family say the Paul who bombed the statue is not the same Paul who made Christian mission trips and handed out candy to Iraqi children.

[Monkeyman]

1. This one I am not buying sorry I fight for PTSD cases but I don't see this one

[davidinalameda]

2. something's not right with him

whether its PTSD or not, his experience in Iraq affected him for the worse

[Monkeyman]

4. I agree there Iraq is breaking minds

[Big Pappa]

3. I

got into a thread like this earlier tonite. I think I will pass