John Allen Muhammed, the older guy in the DC sniper case, is a GW1 vet as of course was McVeigh.
Lee Malvo is a messed up 17-year-old kid who can most charitably be described as someone in serious need of a father figure. If he ran in a slightly different milieau, maybe Malvo would be described as a gangbanger wannabe.
Discussing a culture of violence or of male identity formation through violence is more than I can do at this second, but GW1 is as much a symptom as a cause of that culture.
DoreneC
In a message dated 4/16/2003 7:11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes:
> Malvo and McVeigh were both GW vets. I don't have any stats, but I'll
> bet a lot of GW vets came home and beat their wives too. There's a
> lot of homefront blowback from war. And the sickness, physical and
> mental, and excess deaths are well-established. It's stuff like the
> GW that helps create the "general culture" you refer to.
>
> Doug
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