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Maybe I'm the only one who feels sorry for this guy. If he truly was suffering from PTSD and it wasn't some lawyering-up, he should have been sent to a mental facility instead. A person with PTSD incarcerated in a military prison will go nuts in short order.
My friend, a US Vietnam vet who later served in the FBI (and still doing some auditing after he retired!) gave me quite a shock when he told me he had to stop playing a game as it was a trigger. Apparently his grandkids (and kids) play, but he abstains. After 40 odd years and therapy...
I would prefer the gallows, but the govt prosecutors accepted a plea bargain. The military jury gave him the harshest sentence possible under the deal.
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