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Originally Posted by calipanda23
It's true with the internet generation comment..but it's pretty harsh of you to assume its their fault for committing suicide when we still don't know the complete story. It's still only apparently a self-inflicted gunshot. All the Soldiers charged were NCOs plus one 1LT too. Hard to go through your chain of command when the people who are supposed to be guiding you are the ones bullying you like it's high school.
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Life's not fair sometimes. I don't condone discrimination of any kind, but all the facts are not in. Was he stoned and hazed? If he was, was it because he was of asian descent or because he was a substandard soldier who highlighted himself in some manner?
One mans corrective discipline is another's hazing. Stoning seems excessive, but the media knows how to deliver the news that sells.
None of us was there to accurately say. I've been on a few different sides of that coin and sometimes none of them make sense, but I will say that suicide is not the answer. Suicide is never the answer.
Did his chain of command fail him? More than likely the NCO's directly involved did. Did the LT? Hard to say, but he is on the blame line so of course he is charged and will more than likely fall. I find it hard to believe that it was racially motivated, but I won't say that it wasn't.
At any rate, we can't bring the dead back and someone is going to pay whether deserved or not. Tragic.........