Meanwhile, a federal source said a suspect was in custody and identified him as Jared L. Loughner, 22, a U.S. military veteran who served in Afghanistan. The gunman reportedly fired a pistol with an “extended magazine,” the source said.
The burn pit link above touches me deep... he was not a veteran, he was not a veteran... don't dis my brothers in arms, though some have failed or fallen ... this murderer was not a veteran.
Being a Vietnam Era non-combat veteran stationed at Fort Hood in the early 70s, I remember how it was important for us (we as soldiers) to get out of our uniforms before going beyond the local military towns of Killeen and Copperas Cove. Unlike the soldiers of today which are proud of their identifying GI hair cuts, we would stretch the growth of our hair trying to hide the fact we were GIs, white guys parting their hair down the middle and the black guys packing their hair down tight so when they hit town in the evenings they were able to pick and puff their dos into the very common and popular Afro of the times.
Why did we we do this? Besides coming of age at the end of the 60s with the hippie culture our defining subculture as kids, we had spent at least half our lives under the dark cloud of Vietnam, and though many of us like myself, never ever left the shore of the US or been in Vietnam as many of our brave brothers in arms had been, the public looked at all of us being, combat vet or not, as being drug crazed killers ready to go on a murderous rampage and treated us as such.
Many despised us for being. I remember hitch hiking in uniform to my grandmother's funeral and people giving me the peace sign, turning it into flipping the bird while throwing beer cans from their cars at me. I had many of a combat vet tell me of even more degrading stories back then and over the years.
It was a tag given to soldiers and veterans wrongfully by the left-wing extremist, hippies and yippies protesting Vietnam then and being renewed now by those currently in control (left-wing extremist, "ex" hippies and "ex" yippies) in an attempt to solidified that control are wrongfully tagging today's veteran in the same way.
Just as they were wrong to do that back then, was not the most infamous mass murderer of the 60s that hippie NON-veteran Charles Mason and his "family"? they are wrong to do it today.
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