There was mention in this morning's COLUMBUS DISPATCH that the assailant was possibly drunk and may have mis-interpreted the victim's t-shirt as an anti-war statement.
It's no excuse, but beer can be bad in mass quantities.
It's stunning that this would happen at a Toby Keith concert. The perp is either scum or a moron. In either case, a hero has been harmed.
I live in OH (although not in that area) and I have read quite a few eye-witness reports from the concert. They claim it was very obvious that the assailants were ANTI-war because of the terrible things that they screamed at this veteran. These were PEACE activists just like the ones that spit on me because I am a veteran. I KNEW some of the guys who disrespected me, I live in a small town. I KNEW they were part of the "dippy hippy" contengient. but try telling a democrat that. They either say that I am a liar (nothing like that ever happened--no hippy EVER disrespected a vet--or they will try to tell me that the people who spit on me were really republicans and agents of Nixon). Well I am not an idiot--I grew up with some of those guys--and let me tell you Democrats are anti-war and anti-soldier and anti-America. They hate everything that America stands for. They will say-oh sure we love America but then all they want is to weaken this country. Those were lefties that beat up that soldier. I feel sure of that.