Degenerates Kill Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's Dog

[babylonsister]

I found this so sad. As someone else mentioned, he received more compassion from an Afghan tribe than from his own countrymen. :(

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2640

Degenerates Kill Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's Dog
by: Brandon Friedman
Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 21:39:40 PM EDT


Punks joyriding around killing dogs in rural Texas murdered Navy SEAL and Lone Survivor author Marcus Luttrell's dog last week. The dog's name was Dasy and it was the therapy dog given to him when he returned from his ordeal in Afghanistan. Marcus went on Glenn Beck to tell the story:

Video at link~

The maximum sentence these slugs will get is two years, which is unfortunate because they deserve to spend the rest of their lives in an 8 X 8 ft. cage. I'd like to use some more colorful and angry language, but I'm just gonna leave it. Our thoughts are with Marcus.

If you can't view the video, a summary is below. . . .


Here's a summary of the story from LiveLeak:

You see it seems some dumb-ass punks were driving the Texas countryside, summarily executing dogs.

Marcus was at home, it was late at night and he was awake. He heard a gunshot outside, told his mom to stay inside, and when he went outside he saw a group of punks standing around his yellow lab therapy dog named "Dasy," lying dead in the ditch. These punks had shot Daisy with a .357 and killed her. Dasy was very special to Marcus, because she served not only as his therapy dog, but her very name was an acronym for the members of his SEAL team who fought and died in Afghanistan -- Danny, Axe, Southern Boy (Marcus) and Yankee.

Marcus chased these punks over four counties, and he nearly shot the driver. Finally the Rangers caught up with these punks in Huntsville, TX and the idiots in handcuffs were laughing about it. They said they would also kill Marcus. Do these douchebags not know about Marcus?

Dickhead Alfonso Hernandez was charged with Cruelty to Animals and is facing up to two years in prison, and dickhead #2, Michael Edmonds, is currently on the run.

If you have any information on Edmonds, please contact Sgt. Steven Jeter at the Huntsville, TX Ranger station at 936-435-0152.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Luttrell

On June 28, 2005, Luttrell and SEAL Team 10 were assigned to a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail), a high-ranking Taliban leader responsible for killings in eastern Afghanistan and the Hindu-Kush mountains.<5> The SEAL team was made up of Luttrell, Michael P. Murphy, Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson.<5> Luttrell and Axelson were the team's snipers; Dietz was in charge of communications and Murphy the team leader.

The four SEALs stumbled upon a small group of goat herders whom they considered to be Taliban sympathizers, but the SEALs were unable to verify any hostile intent.<6> Luttrell claims that Murphy, the officer in charge of the SEAL team, put the fate of the goat herders to a vote. Axelson voted to kill the Afghanis, and Dietz abstained. Murphy told Luttrell that he would vote the same as him so with his vote it was decided to free the herders.<5>

This account is emphatically denied by Murphy’s father, Daniel Murphy. He claims that his son would have never have put such a decision to a vote and that Luttrell told him a different account when he spoke to him, "He said that Michael was adamant that the civilians were going to be released, that he wasn’t going to kill innocent people," said the elder Murphy, "Michael wouldn’t put that up for committee. People who knew Michael know that he was decisive and that he makes decisions."<5> The herders were subsequently released and disappeared over the mountain ridge. Luttrell believed they immediately betrayed the team's location to local Taliban forces and within an hour, the SEALs were engaged in an intense gun battle against a force of more than 150 enemy fighters.<7>

In the ensuing battle, the rest of Luttrell's SEAL team were killed. Team leader Michael P. Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the battle.

A MH-47 Chinook helicopter was dispatched with a force consisting of SEALs and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment "Nightstalkers" to rescue the team, but the helicopter was shot down by an RPG. All 16 men on the Chinook were killed.<8>

Luttrell was the only survivor of the SEAL team. Badly wounded, he managed to walk and crawl seven miles to evade capture. He was given shelter by an Afghan tribe,<9> who alerted the Americans of his presence, and he was finally rescued by American forces six days after the gun battle.<8>

[Jack_DeLeon]

1. Yeah pretty fucked up...

hopefully these guys will be in jail for a good long while.

[MagickMuffin]

2. I just don't understand human behavior

What causes man to hate and lash out with such a destructive manner?.?.?

Why do they think killing is fun, whether it is killing another human being or animals, what makes them behave like this?.?.?

I have never been able to figure it out. I had an older brother who buried his dog's puppies alive. I could hear them from under the ground and went and informed my dad, he made my brother dig them up. I couldn't believe that he would do such a thing. It made no sense to me, still doesn't. We ended up giving them away after the were finished nursing.

I can only guess people enjoy their mean streaks. These thugs/punks needs to learn a valuable lesson, perhaps part of their punishment should be learning to have compassion for all living things. Maybe Marcus needs to show them just how hurtful they were in killing innocent animals who couldn't defend themselves from their brutal attack.

[tbyg52]

3. I'm glad the jerks who did it were caught. nt