In this case...debatable if this is the case, hard to say. My point was thanking CIN for her post on touching on something that is real and overall is not embellished. These major psych issues have happened and happen more than people think...but still not talked about because people fear being seen as anti-military. It isn't...its bringing issues to the front because these soldiers and their families need major support and help when they return from tours. Whether it bears on this case remains to be seen but I was thanking her for bringing up an issue that can and does happen with ones in the military. Nothing more.
Usually those who are suffering with PTSD have been on the actual battlefield fighting or being shot at or having to deal with IUDs and bombs or medics/doctors who have to tend to the severely wounded.
I think everyone is aware of how PTSD affects many in our military. I don't know where you live but it is a very serious issue in my area concerning how the VA is treating its veterans when they return from the battlefield and discussed at length. There have been many changes made at our local VA clinics. I think more than ever before people are talking about it and care deeply about our true heroes. Soldiers and Marines are dying from suicides at an alarming rate or dying due to lack of physical and mental treatment by having to wait forever and ever to even get to see a doctor. That is totally unacceptable. I don't know anyone that shirks talking about it. It is one of the most disgraceful things that has ever happened in our country and to our veterans. There have been protests where I live due to the treatment or lack of to the ones who sacrifices the most for us. All of them are special and elite and we owe them the best care possible. Only 1% of the population will serve in the military that is how valued they are and should be. Now that the VA has been exposed I think it is very important to almost everyone in our country. FB goes night and day demanding justice for all of them. That includes treating them for mental issues as well as physical and in some cases both.
But even having PTSD, which imo he did not have...... it doesn't make someone into a murderer. Most who suffer from PTSD harm themselves.
What I meant by it being embellished or overblown is saying in the military they teach them how to kill so therefore that is why they murder and feel no remorse. We have over a million plus in our armed forces at any given time yet those in the military are far less likely to commit a violent crime than the public at large. If that was remotely true we would see many more violent crimes committed instead of less. No one in the public at large is taught to kill yet they are the ones who murder way more often than those in the military.
It is the individual mindset of the murderer that makes them a murder........not their occupation.
Imo, PTSD nor being a Marine had one thing to do with why Erin is dead. He stupidly murdered her thinking no one would find out he had impregnated another Marine's wife. That's why she is dead, imo and no other reason.
And he doesn't have a leg to stand on even if he trying to abuse the PTSD either. IMO
In every branch of service some slip under the radar.
When our son was in the Marine Corps he told me it wasn't the enemy he worried about (he knew who and where they were) but it was the loners and misfits that should never have been allowed to join in the first place that scared him the most.
Like every employer there will be some who shouldn't have ever been there. I think CL is one of those. It happens in the private sectors as well...even more so. IMO
