[2ndDivisionVet]

The author (standing)

Christopher describes himself as follows:

"I was born in Fredonia, Dec. 19, 1949. My upbringing was pretty uneventful. I attended college for a bit, but dropped out to work and get more money for tuition, and was drafted. I left for Fort Dix on November 5, 1969. I went Infantry, sent to Fort Polk for training, from there to Fort Benning where I had my Airborne training, and from there to Fort Huachuca, Arizona for training in 'Unattended Ground Surveillance,' or sensors.

I went to Vietnam on July 5, 1970, and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. I was attached to Military Intelligence, and was involved with two of the largest battles on that year, FSB Ripcord and FSB O'Rielly. Shortly afterward, a new unit within the Sensor Platoon was formed, called 'Roving Monitor.' I volunteered for that, and basically we became a combination Forward Observer and Recon unit, calling in Air or Artillery strikes, or just tracking movement on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Much of our work was through the Ashau Valley and Laotian border area.

Our unit, which only comprised 28 men, of which I was a squad leader, was heavily involved in recon work leading up to the Laotian invasion of February, 1971. Our unit was specifically cited by Major General Hennesey and Major General Tarpley for our work during that time. I hold a Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal and a Vietnamese Gallantry Cross. Our unit was awarded the same. I got out of the service in August of 1971, worked for the State Department of Mental Hygiene for 34 years until retirement.

I have three sons, and work part time for BOCES. I am also listed as 70 percent disabled from my service. I stayed hidden for many years, like many Vietnam vets, and only recently began to make any sort of public display of my service."

[NoLibZone]

Trayvon attacked George because he thought George was gay.

Trayvon was the problem.

[Little Pig]

Mr. Christopher is doing *nothing* to dispel the “dumb grunt” stereotype of Infantry soldiers. He quite obviously wrote his screed without bothering to learn anything about the Zimmerman case other than what he heard on the news in the runup to the trial.

[funfan]

So what does he think about the white young man who is in a coma and brain damaged because he was attached by 50 black kids and he was attacked because he was in a black part of town and considered ti be an outsider. Maybe this guy should take a trip to that neighborhood and be one with the hoods there.

[Olog-hai]

1. The title has a run-on sentence. The author ought to learn basic English. (Wonder how his skills in cursive writing are?)
   
   
2. Speculation and facts are two different things. Never mind blatant race-baiting. No facts support any of his BS. Now he should start to worry about the black-on-white terrorism that this farce has inspired.

[Vince Ferrer]

The next time one of your kids or grandkids leaves your house, take a really good look at them, look at their clothing, look at their hair and their makeup and think to yourself, "What would George Zimmerman make of them?" Or the police? Or a judge?

That used to be common sense parenting.

[Darksheare]

Ah yes, “trayvon just wanted to get his purple drank on!”
Author is guilty of writing while impaired by stupid.

[Billthedrill]

Well, Paul, let me help you out here with a little dose of reality untainted by idiot vacuities such as "culture". Trayvon is not a problem because he is deservedly dead. You are a problem because you are self-righteous and deliberately stupid.

It's going to be like this, Paul, because the country is armed to the teeth and completely out of patience with predators. Don't try to cloud the issue, don't try to pretend that things are how you'd like to imagine them, and don't try to sell any crap about how this might have ended otherwise had Zimmerman been unarmed. We know how that would have ended. It didn't, and that's a good thing.

[South40]

He should have stayed hidden.

[GeronL]

When someone is sitting on your chest and pounding your face and bouncing your head off the concrete, shooting him is not being a vigilante it’s being someone who wants to live.

[LOC1]

I do not believe that most blacks care very much that Trayvon Martin died. After all, they seem to ignore more black on black violent deaths every day.

I think what blacks care about is that some “white” guy had the temerity and the means to defend himself from a beat down.

That is really what this is about, cow white people so that the black hoodlums can rob, steal and kill more of them with impunity.

The Obama administration panders to this approach, because it buys black votes, just like Obama phones.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Christopher? Or demonopher?

This is a nationwide craze. To be fair I haven’t traced it to its sources to see whether it’s really getting much mindshare. But the devil it is, I say. With people buying into it. It should serve as spiritual caution.

Yeah, I am a gruff Christian. I try to be loving and kind to people and only rude to the devil, but alas I fall short. Please forgive me if I fail. Better to give the devil trouble than not to give the devil trouble.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"I say Trayvon Martin is dead for two reasons "

I'd like to see him try typing that while having his skull pounded to mush on the sidewalk!

[Mark17]

The article says he went to Vietnam July 5th, 1970. I went to Vietnam July 14th, 1970, but I am not like him at all.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Trayvon not problem, shooter was

How many people did Trayvon help rescue from a car crash or anything?

[Gene Eric]

>> “a walking time bomb and wannabe cop”

An erroneous, shallow characterization.

FWIW, I don’t give a crap about Trayvon’s past either.

[Fresh Wind]

This guy is proof that not all people who lie about Trayvon™ and Zimmerman are black.

[pallis]

I keep thinking we will run out of these frigging idiots, but there is always one more. Trayvon is dead because he attacked the wrong man. Spare your tears and grief for all the innocent people who have been attacked by violent blacks since then. As a symbol of victim-hood, Trayvon fails the test.

[freeangel]

“As the letter writer pointed out, as long as the man with that pistol could make a claim, he felt legitimately threatened, and mistook the writer’s camera equipment for a weapon, and had shot him, under Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, he could not be charged, especially when the only contradicting voice was silenced forever.”

But he didn’t have to use the pistol to defend himself because his head wasn’t being bashed in on the concrete. See how the law really works?

[ImNotLying]

“Worked for State Department of Mental Hygiene”

I think that might have been a misprint....it should have read he was “housed” by the State Department of Mental Hygiene.

[onyx]

I see he has one comment at the link.

Aug-12-13 1:03 AM
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What an utter pile of excrement this commentary is. I frankly could not read the entire thing. It is the thinking of people like this that shows exactly what is wrong in this country. Ridiculous.