Fort Campbell-based soldier returns home, disappears

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11305103.htm

"All he would tell me was that he was fired on and that he had to fire back," Tileston said. "But he told some of his friends that he had had to shoot people. He just wasn't prepared for that psychologically. He didn't deal with it very well."

Tileston said her son was never a very political person, but had made it clear after he came home that he opposed U.S. intervention in Iraq.

"He thought it was the wrong war for the wrong reasons," she said.

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"Levi is so intelligent it's amazing," Smith said. "But you could tell something was wrong. He was sent over there to work on helicopters, and he ended up shooting people. Evidently, it must have traumatized him."



This was so sad, it breaks my heart as a mother

"Levi is so intelligent it's amazing," Smith said. "But you could tell something was wrong. He was sent over there to work on helicopters, and he ended up shooting people. Evidently, it must have traumatized him."

I bet the recruiter told him he would never see combat as a mechanic and that is what he signed up for.
I read here the other day--can't remember who wrote it--the best statement. Something along the lines of the evil and violence that we have committed over there, will return to our shores.
So very true.

During VietNam, the dodgers went to Canada, people evading call up, but the DESERTERS went to Sweden.

Canada seems convenient and homelike, but they don't want our soldiers hiding out there.