what St. Augustine failed to mention, and realized later in life... they all lied.
The kid is just a kid. It has got to be tough being a young person today, possibly educated beyond one’s maturity and having one’s mush-brained thoughts saved for eternity on Google’s cache.
Not saying he should be given a pass, but I shudder to think if my journal written as a college freshman had been available to posterity on ‘search’. I know what he wrote he wrote for publication and he should have known better, but I’m not certain I would have....
Making up things? Seems like he's DEFINITELY "establishing credentials" for liberal writing.
Beauchamp’s story continues its slow-motion collapse, and the TNR editors are conveniently on vacation.
He better...what a disgrace this creep is...
I don't cut him slack because of youth. This wasn't some temporary failure of good sense, it was a long-considered plan acted upon for some time. If he is ashamed it is because he got caught so easily. It will pass. He'll have a horde of enablers stroking his little ego for being so very brave in speaking Truth To Power despite the fact that it wasn't truth and the power was his own by virtue of his uniform. I do not think I could be more completely disgusted with this wretch.
I think a dishonorable is more appropriate - AFTER he serves the rest of his time in the brig.
Fr. Paul McNellis. An old acquaintance. Now a college professor and one of the Vatican’s top scholars on “ethics”.
Also a combat veteran of Vietnam as well as a Vietnam journalist (civilian).
A great guy. He is the one you want next to you in a foxhole or at a pew.
I spent five years at Nellis AFB as a photographer, much of it documenting aircraft accidents. We had to do autopsies on two pilots who were killed in the same accident, caused by a major malfunction of their aircraft. I was training a new photographer on how to do accident work; we completed the first autopsy before lunch, and took him to a restaurant that served only varieties of chili. He spent the first fifteen minutes we were there looking quite green. It was cruel, but very funny. It also helped to settle him down for the second autopsy. People who get too stressed out can do some really stupid stuff, like curling up in a ball when the shooting starts. Relieving that stress, however it happens, can be life-saving. I guess Beauchamp missed figuring that out.
He was writing these sorts of dillusional things on his blog before he ever joined the military, I highly doubt anything he’s written is accurate.