I'm personally still reeling from the apparent murder-suicide of USMC SSgt. Travis N. Twiggs and his brother, Will Twiggs, as the cops closed in on them in Arizona yesterday. (See umpteen shallow news reports for the same basic information, but no explanatory context or any insights as to why.) Our previous blog entries about Travis Twiggs are here, here, here and here.
While I make my feeble attempt to sort through what is known and what is not, and blog about it later, I'm struck by one comment Twiggs made in the essay he published about his own signficant struggles with PTSD. The comment is specifically about PTSD:
"I pray that no Marine or sailor, or any service member for that matter, ever has to go through what I went through." -- Travis N. Twiggs, RIP, 5/14/2008.
