FATHER TELLS OF TRAGEDY (Daughter Killed by Husband at Fort Bragg)

The Canton Repository (Ohio) ^ | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 | By ED BALINT Repository staff writer

[ResistorSister]

This limbo time is a period of great danger for individuals with unstable spouses. Better to cut the cord as quickly as possible.

I agree!

Cut the cord and RUN!

[TankerKC]

But I will say this...not all women cheat on their military husbands...sometimes marriages just don't work.

Correct.

[ResistorSister]

Her husband, Brandon, came home in January (at least that is what I remember reading in another article.)

Whoops, I read it in this article.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

..... why only the married guys? Because the bachelors don't have wives who shack up with other guys. If you think this is not most likely the case then you live in a little fluff pseudo reality.

And military guys don't cheat on their wives while away from home? Especially in Afghanistan! Those burkas are awfully sexy.

[ResistorSister]

Those burkas are awfully sexy.

You're Mind-numbed...for sure! ;-)

[Iowa Granny]

ping for a later read

[cynicom]

In the military, cheating was a two way street. Having been overseas with men that were not cheating, and see them come home to find out about their wives was devastating. There were no murders, many beatings and a lot of kids were left into one parent familiies.

[billbears]

North Carolina law requires a one-year separation before a divorce".

Although I know the reason for this law, it's not a good one. After the one-year separation, a divorce can take another year or even longer

I agree, it should take longer if necessary. The army base wants to offer counseling that's actually worth a d#mn and not just pandering to the masses? Offer counseling to the wives while the husbands are gone to maintain, whatever it takes to explain the reason for the husband being gone, what the wife should be doing while he is gone.

But of course this won't happen will it? That's limiting the wife's 'freedoms'. We have to be concerned with the most base human needs don't we? Clinton wanted the army to be his little proving ground for what society was to become? Well, the bastard got his wish. The army is no different from what society has become.

[ResistorSister]

Amen.

[monday]

"This limbo time is a period of great danger for individuals with unstable spouses. Better to cut the cord as quickly as possible."

and then dissapear. Separation can cause some serious, usually temporary, psycological problems, but as they say time heals all wounds.

[Valin]

And more.

Wife of Army officer arrested in Fort Bragg shooting death

Associated Press

Published Jul 31, 2002

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The wife of an Army Special Operations officer has been charged in his shooting death, the latest in a string of domestic violence incidents that have shaken Fort Bragg.

Joan Shannon, 35, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the July 23 fatal shooting of Maj. David Shannon, 40.

``We believe financial gain is one of the primary motives of the crime,'' said police Lt. Tom Guilette. He did not elaborate.

Shannon's slaying if the fifth domestic-related slaying linked to the base since June 11. Four Fort Bragg wives have been killed, allegedly by their husbands, and Fort Bragg officials say they are looking at the cases to determine if the stress of military life was a contributing factor.

In the Shannon slaying, three of his four children and a teenage friend were at home when the soldier was shot in the chest and head as he slept, police said.

Joan Shannon told police she awoke to gunshots about 3 a.m. and saw an intruder, and followed him from the bedroom down a hallway. She was unable to give police a description.

David Shannon had served in the Army since 1987 and was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. He had been at Fort Bragg two years. The family lived off the base.

His wife worked as a loan receptionist at the Fort Bragg Credit Union about a year, said her supervisor, Mae Davis. Davis said workers there raised about $500 for her and her family after her husband's death.