[DManA]

Why is the fact that he’s a veteran relevant to the story?

[fr_freak]

Why is the fact that he’s a veteran relevant to the story?

In this case, I think it is only so author can milk the story for all the pathos possible. It sells more copies than "regular guy gets shot". Plus the irony - go to combat and survive, try to buy something off of Craig's list from a couple of thugs and die.

[Fightin Whitey]

Why is the fact that he’s a veteran relevant to the story?

That he was a veteran is relevant because it suggests that a life of evident value and valor was ended, by a pair of worthless scum, for no damn good reason.

[Bryanw92]

>>Why is the fact that he’s a veteran relevant to the story?

Because, in today’s media, that’s the only way they value a white man’s life. If he wasn’t a veteran, then young Tyrone and Tashaunne (or whatever his stupid pseudo-african name is) would be getting the “they was choir boys who loved their mother” treatment.

[Gene Eric]

>> Why is the fact that he’s a veteran relevant to the story?

Because veterans are not irrelevant... well, at least to some of us.