[Right_Wing_Madman]

He also had post-traumatic stress disorder and health issues from Agent Orange exposure during combat in Vietnam.

It sounds like he lied about his service record, perhaps to get disability payments. The US completed its withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, when the veteran was 17 years old.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The US completed its withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, when the veteran was 17 years old.

I misread the article. The veteran died in 2020, not 2024. So he was age 13 when the US left Vietnam.

[heartwood]

He was born in 1951, died 2020.

Heartbreaking. A lost old man suffering dementia is heartbreaking even even if a violent cop hadn’t killed him.

If only that cop were a rogue cop and not an ordinary one.

End qualified immunity.

[from occupied ga]

He would have been 21 in 1973. If he was 68 in 2020 then he was born in 1952. 1973-1952=21

[FoxInSocks]

He enlisted in 1969 at the age of 18. He retired from the reserves in 1999.

When Grant awoke from emergency surgery and couldn't move, he apologized to family gathered around his hospital bed.

In the fog of dementia, he thought he'd been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Grant's family decided not to correct him.

'We left it like that, we didn't know how he'd react,' his sister, Kathy Jenkins, recalled.

Grant died almost six months later on July 24, 2020, aged 69.

[Blueflag]

Yeah the math isn’t working well...