Peeance, freeance: Iraq vet struggled with PTSD then killed wife, himself

[Bluebear]

"There's a nightmare that's about to unfold in the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years," Abbinett said, "and it's going to make the Vietnam veterans' generation pale in comparison."



For. WHAT????? :mad:


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"Klink"

Long after the fire went out in Iraq, the trauma remained burned in his mind.

Senior Airman Jason Klinkenberg never got over watching his buddy burn to death on Nov. 11, 2005. That's when militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their convoy that hit the cab of a tank truck filled with diesel fuel.

"I went looking for the driver," Klinkenberg, 25, wrote Jan. 30 in a paper for his psychology class at the College of Southern Nevada.

"He was on fire and screaming. Just when I was about to enter the fire and try to pull Daniel "Miami" Jurn out ... the ACC (assistant convoy commander) grabbed me by the vest and said there was nothing we could do. So we stood there watching 'Miami' burn to death."

The fire was so intense it melted plastic reflectors on another truck in the 35-vehicle convoy.

When the flames subsided seven hours later, "Klink," as he was called, recovered Jurn's remains and hauled them back to their base in Balad....

Three weeks after he wrote his college report, "Who Am I -- Self Biography," he shot to death his wife of 17 months, Crystal, and then turned the .38-caliber handgun on himself.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/42491737.html


Jason and Crystal in happier times.

[tekisui]

1. A tragic consequence of war

and under-treated metal health. So sad.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Sad. I will say, after reading the whole article, that Crystal wasn't the brightest chick--

why fuck with your husband's mind by flirting and going home with another man (apparently to get even), when you KNOW he's suicidal and emotionally volatile and suffering from PTSD? Not saying that she deserved to die, certainly--but Jesus, some common sense and maturity would have been helpful.