Let us remember the men, women, and families serving our nation out of Ft Hood. The Heroes who gave their lives, the heroes wounded in their bodies, and the heroes wounded in their hearts

Let us not condemn this man for his religion, if he stands condemned let it be as a brother who betrayed his oath to his country, profession, and family-in-arms.

And then there was Timothy McVeigh.

I write this blog after reading some of the press concerning Hasan’s motivation for his assault at Ft. Hood yesterday, killing thirteen and wounding scores. It appears his rampage was halted by the brave act of a civilian female security guard.

When I showed up at Quarters last night, I immediately heard crap about Hasan’s name and religion. I responded by noting that he was born in Virginia and his religious beliefs do not matter.

Even if this was an attack of terrorism, his religion would not matter.

Noting this, I am hearing arguments from the other side of stupidity, arguments about how he was harassed in the military for being a Muslim, there is even some noise in the press beginning to characterize his actions as a protest against our wars in the Middle East.

Let us be clear, this is nothing but the acts of a selfish man violating not only his oath as an officer in the United States Army but his oath as a physician. There was nothing courageous or responsive in his act.

Now back to Timothy McVeigh. When it came out that the Oklahoma City Bombing was the act of a disgruntled former infantry sergeant, my brother Seth and I (both former disgruntled infantry sergeants) struggled to reconcile this to the hundreds of grunts we served with. Eventually we remembered one specific soldier and realized it was possible.

McVeigh met with two reporters from his hometown in upstate New York before his execution for his act of cowardice against men, women, and children in Oklahoma. These ‘Extensive’ interviews that resulted in the book American Terrorist.

Two idiots never made more money being stupid in their lives then these reporters. They apparently believed everything McVeigh told them without any checking.

I will only provide two examples of the many lies McVeigh told and they reported as fact.

First, there is the time McVeigh attempted to sneak into Area 51 in southern ........New Mexico. Yes, McVeigh gives this long story about how he bravely made his way past numerous levels of security as he attempted to gain entrance.

Might have had an easier time if he had been in ........Nevada where Area 51 has been located for the last sixty years.

And then there is McVeigh stated trigger point that he says turned him against the Army and his country.

McVeigh states very simply the final straw that broke his back was when he failed the ‘Q’ course for Special Forces.

Already alerted by the other lies McVeigh told, I still waited until I got a chance to confirm my memory with my brother Seth, a graduate of this same ‘Q’ course that produces our country’s Green Berets, among them my brother.

Unlike the Army Ranger course, the ‘Q’ course requires all candidates to be active airborne.

I have heard Airborne Ranger after Airborne Ranger bitch about how they had to jump into the swamps in Florida during Ranger schools while their non airborne classmates were driven out. Part of the price of being a paratrooper.

But I never heard any similar stories about the ‘Q’ course and the first two phases of the ‘Q’ course were at Ft. Bragg where I was stationed. The final phase involved a parachute jump into a small town in North Carolina where the Special Forces candidates recruited people form the town to help them find an opposition force made up of units from my division, the 82d Airborne. This town takes a lot of pride in their part of the years to train and select who will wear the Green Beret.

McVeigh was never airborne, not even a five jump chump, he never attended jump school and thus was not qualified for Special Forces training. It was all a lie.

So, we know that McVeigh version of why he acted was a lie. Let us not hold our breath about what is said about Major Hasan.