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Agnew had PTSD and a TBI from 6 deployments with the 82nd Airborne Division. He was my roommate at The Citadel. I knew him for 17 years and I and other guys from our Platoon spent the past 9 years trying to help him and watching VA do absolutely nothing about his mental health or deteriorating state. I dont blame clerk for justified self defense, but I miss my band my brother. I wish he could have found some way to stop the flashbacks.

Agnew had PTSD and a TBI from 6 deployments with the 82nd Airborne Division. He was my roommate at The Citadel. I knew him for 17 years and I and other guys from our Platoon spent the past 9 years trying to help him and watching VA do absolutely nothing about his mental health or deteriorating state. I dont blame clerk for justified self defense, but I miss my band my brother. I wish he could have found some way to stop the flashbacks.

Agnew had two bronze stars. I roomed with him at The Citadel, I spent years driving up to Ft. Brag to visit him. Knowing the guy as well as I have for the past 17 years, he was probably going through a flashback and thought that the customers and clerk were taliban. ( I am not joking I and other fiends have had to fold him down and try and talk him down when he has had flashbacks and gotten violent with us)

Agnew was a war hero who served in the 82nd Airborne through 6 deployments. Once he was out of the service, the VA just tossed him away and I spent the past 9 years watching Agnew’s flashbacks get worse and worse until they ended his life.

His dad was Irish he moved to Thailand after serving in Vietnam. Andrew Agnew was half Thai and half American

He was not a Democrat, he was a Republican. He was my roomate and my best friend while at the Citadel. He served in the 82nd Airborne 6 different deployments.

Afghanistan messed him up bad. Others and I spent years trying to help him. He even moved back to his native Thailand and became a buddhist monk in an effort to stop his demons and PTSD. Knowing Agnew as well as I have for the past 17 years, he was probably having a flashback and legitimately thought he was in Afghanistan. I dont fault the clerk for defending himself. I just wish the VA could have done something to help Agnew, just once in the previous 9 years.