Posted on 08/02/2025 1:42:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Uh ya. That was my point
A Military Veteran? Yes, let’s ID the shooter.
A Minority? No, let’s not mention that.
I know. I got it. You do have some good folks in your generation though.
Yes. My WWII Veteran Father told me about it. It was called Shell-shock or Battle fatigue. Probably other terms as well. Not all are cut out for the horrors of war.
Sounds like he did a public service.
Hung jury or acquit.
He’s more alive at 4am then the victims have ever been
“ The suspect is a veteran of the US Armed Forces, a spokeswoman for the Army told US media. Lt Col Ruth Catsro said Mr Brown served as an armour crewman from 2001-05, and was deployed to Iraq from 2004-05.”
Means nothing to me without knowing his discharge status
“””Yes. My WWII Veteran Father told me about it. It was called Shell-shock or Battle fatigue.”””””””””
I remember a few guys that were called shell shocked. Dad was in WW2 but all I know is that he ended up in a hospital in Africa and got sent home before his term was up. He NEVER talked about it. Other WW2 vets I knew would never stop talking about it.
The term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder hadn’t been invented yet but the thing was real. The movie Best Years Of Our Lives addresses it closely enough for my WWII and Korea veteran father to say he never wanted to see it again.
George Carlin talked about that very subject.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
My brother-in-law would plug his ears and hide his head when a band started playing a song about his birth place. He HATED that song.
“I’M PROWD TO BEE AN OKI-E-E FROM MUS-KOGE-E-E-E!”
His mom’s water broke on a trip to Tulsa from Dallas in that town.
Agree, IF they have both arms and both legs.
OF COURSE the headline includes details about him being an army veteran.
If he were of a different demographic, take your pick of victims groups, they’d barely be mentioning that he was a man and no other description.
I HATE the MSM.
Which happened with men who didn't go to war before that.
Some people are just awful human beings.
However, I think PTSD is a legitimate issue that vets were never treated for, unfortunately.
However, the condition has been vastly capitalized upon so that now everyone has PTSD and the number of people who try to avoid arrest in traffic stops by claiming anxiety and PTSD so they need to be treated with kid gloves is near 100%. I've seen enough videos of entitled brats are are being told *No* and experiencing consequences for the first time in their lives.
The casual claim of it does a disservice to those who truly have it.
There must be hundreds of thousands of military veterans in the USA; how is that relevant?
When I was a DJ at a Country Music radio station, I would have to get up and walk out of the studio when I got a request to play Achy Breaky Heart, which was several times a day.
A vet from 20 years ago... methinks lamestream media is stirring up crap like usual.
Well - read it again? He’s the bar owner. The perp lived next door. The implication is that everyone involved were “regulars”. He knows or knew everyone involved.
It makes perfect sense to me. YMMV
Amy Vet?
Bar?
What could go wrong with that combo...
__________________________________
what about it being 10:30 in the morning!!??
My uncle (my mother’s little brother) was 17 years old when he had to hit the beach at Iwo Jima. He and the boys crawling out of that landing craft into the surf that day was the “second wave to hit the beach”. They ran into carnage, the dead bodies of the first wave lying there, dying, maimed.
What happened on the beach that day? He didnt get past that day, even after marrying and having a couple of cute little boys. He took his own life, leaving all of us, missing him to this day.
Vietnam then left many of my generation marred and broken. PTSD is not an excuse, as some now think, but possibly an explanation why people lose their sanity and self-control- go berserk.
I am sure some may use it that way - as an excuse, but I wonder how old you are, and how many of your friends and family have suffered because of war? My grandsons have no understanding of horrible war can be, probably because of modern computer based video games. I have noticed that my son, 82nd Airborne, Northern Iraq, Operation Comfort - rescuing the Kurds, doesn’t talk about what he and his men endured, and what happened to the Kurds when caught by Saddam’s men. I notice he doesn’t seem interested in such games, avoids them...
I know even the strongest of men have suffered for years after the savagery of combat and hope we never have to send young men to war again. But I doubt my hopes will come true. War is not like a video game on the internet.
I do not know about the man in Utah, so am just telling you my thoughts in general.
Nailed it!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.