Soldier could not endure more pain, wife says

[unhappycamper]

Soldier could not endure more pain, wife says
By Jeff Karoub - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jun 5, 2008 5:58:45 EDT

DETROIT — Lana Waldorf spent two hours Wednesday morning poring through a “lifetime of photos” of her husband, Lance. The images brought to her mind his love for God, family and country that he sought to share at home and a world away as a soldier.

But as she reflected on his 40-year life and death Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a veterans’ cemetery, she also knew he could not share his deep suffering with those closest to him.

“His desire to be at peace in heaven was greater than the thought of enduring any more pain,” she said of her husband, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve who twice had been deployed to Afghanistan and soon was expecting to receive orders for a third deployment.

Police say a caretaker at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly Township, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit and not far from the Waldorfs’ home in Bingham Farms, discovered Lance Waldorf’s body in full military fatigues with a handgun next to him.

Also beside him was a note, his will, a backpack and photos of him with his wife, family members and friends, according to Michigan State Police Sgt. Gary Muir.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/06/ap_soldier_suicide_060408/

[Stargazer99]

This says something really ugly about this nation

The third deployment, while the majority of the Republican party's children are not on the front lines. Low class, middle class you are used up material and the ruling class doesn't give a damn about you (by their fruits you will know them). I'm begining to intensly dislike my "superiors" ie wealthy. And still the common man sits and takes it in the shorts because he is afraid to "rock the boat". How many human souls are to be sacrificed the the god called "mammon"?

[Stargazer99]

1. This says something really ugly about this nation

The third deployment, while the majority of the Republican party's children are not on the front lines. Low class, middle class you are used up material and the ruling class doesn't give a damn about you (by their fruits you will know them). I'm begining to intensly dislike my "superiors" ie wealthy. And still the common man sits and takes it in the shorts because he is afraid to "rock the boat". How many human souls are to be sacrificed the the god called "mammon"?
In the paper this morning I read where the city of Olympia Washington is forcing RV residents living in the city that they will be forced to move to where no one knows. These people would be homeless otherwise...but well you know can't have the lower classes lowering the city's status. Another article in the paper tells of a woman who has paid the old folks home for the last 10 years, but now that she has run out of money and must resort to welfare the capitalist want her out. Out to where? The damn system has both husband and wife working to keep the wolf away from the door, who is there to care for the old? Maybe this society's solution is to just kill the old and infirm. Its been happening anyway to the lower classes with no medical coverage (now the medical profession is thinking of not taking Medicare patients because there isn't enough PROFIT in it. Michelle Obama is not far off the mark..this country needs to wake up.