Wow...well, for a truly excellent experience, see this raw footage by Arizona TV reporter Suzanne Kennedy, interviewing SSgt. Travis Twiggs' wife, Kellee. It's great stuff. Kellee Twiggs speaks her mind, the reporter asks fairly good questions and leaves Kellee plenty of room to talk, and it's long -- which means you get quite an opportunity to hear from Kellee about what Travis Twiggs was going through recently, and how she felt about it. Really excellent work. It also clears up a lot of the mystery about what the last few months of Travis Twiggs' life was like, and reinforces the impression we probably already have, about how the Marines are still quite a bit better at fighting wars than they are at tending to the needs of their warriors, and how Twiggs' guilt over losing several men from his platoon weighed on him heavily, and didn't resolve. Kellee comes across in a great way, and it's very sad at the end of the tape, when she breaks down talking about how much she misses him. In the rest of the tape she's very composed, under the circumstances, and makes an impassioned advocate for better psychological care for the troops. Here's the link to the excellent raw interview footage; if it becomes available as a video to embed, I'll add it here as well. Great work. Click here for the link. (See also this later blog entry, linked here, which includes a transcript of the interview.)
Editor's Note: Elsewhere today we've learned that Kellee and her husband, Travis, go way back: they were childhood neighbors in Louisiana, and had been married for nine years, with two children. That's another way of saying, she really knows the guy, and what's "normal" or "abnormal" in his behavior.
