I don’t know Kari that well, I only met her at the military ball we had post-Iraq (and maybe one other time). Alas Babylon knows her pretty well and Kaylee Frye (my wife) had the opportunity to hang out with her a few times while we were deployed.
She struck me as a great lady. I hope she and her family weather this storm.
Thanks, FSE.
Our hometown papers here near Cincy have tried to descend on the family, but to date they’ve had little success. Instead they spend their time trying to find other sins they can carp on.
My experience says this soldier on his 4th deployment had been rode hard and could have been broken.
The bottom line, though, is that none of us really know anything other than what we’re reading in the media. And Haditha teaches me not to trust the media to give a soldier any benefit of the doubt or any presumption of innocence.
Amen to that and thank you both!
She is extremely grateful to all who are praying for her!
She said the press has been atrocious, making up stuff, repeating rumors without cross checking a single fact, totally misunderstanding the military lifestyle, military justice, and just plain getting things wrong and getting in the way.
Today the rest of her stuff was packed up by movers (not her) at their off-base house and brought to Lewis-McChord. She told me the movers said when the press got wind that someone was at the house, they charged IN in mass and were video taping EVERYTHING they had; the boxes, their contents, stray documents, the brick and bat of their everyday lives, their furniture—everything.
What's that song by Don Henly? Oh yeah, Dirty Laundry. Like that.
As I said earlier folks, DO NOT believe what the media says.
In any case, she thanks you one and all! God Bless you!