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John Allen Muhammed, the older guy in the DC sniper case, is a GW1 vet as of course was McVeigh.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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DoreneC<BR>
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In a message dated 4/16/2003 7:11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Malvo and McVeigh were both GW vets. I don't have any stats, but I'll <BR>
bet a lot of GW vets came home and beat their wives too. There's a <BR>
lot of homefront blowback from war. And the sickness, physical and <BR>
mental, and excess deaths are well-established. It's stuff like the <BR>
GW that helps create the "general culture" you refer to.<BR>
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Doug<BR>
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