Three things happened in Arizona in the past month to make me pause and reflect. The first would have been hard to miss unless one were hidden away in a cave. The other two lasted one news cycle. They all had to do with killing people.
About Me
- Timothy Dean Martin
- Paso Robles, California, United States
- Novelist, poet, songwriter, and journalist, I bring over four decades of experience to the written page. I just finished Mental Hygiene, a coming of age novel set in Fort Jackson, SC circa 1967-68.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Deploying a Suicide
On November 15, 2010, Staff Sergeant David Senft died at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan. The Army's official cause of death was "injuries sustained in a non-combat incident". Despite the fact that the Army's Criminal Investigative Division has reported to Senft's father that his son was found in an SUV with a gun in his hand and a hole in his head, and a cell phone on the car seat with a text message saying, "I don't know what to say, I'm sorry", the Army has refused to call Senft's death a suicide.
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