09/20/2010 - The end of Spc. Armando G. Aguilar's life was ironic, and tragic, after a year of searching for hidden bombs in Iraq with Fort Hood's 87th Sapper Company.
A man often on the highway at home and in Iraq, he had driven the last 10 miles or so of his life last month when he again confronted a perceived enemy: a police officer who had been chasing him.
They faced each other at a service station just off Interstate 35 in Hewitt, the cop armed with a .45-caliber handgun, a video camera running in the patrol car.
“I observed a subject that was later identified as Armando Aguilar Jr. exit his truck and place a pistol to the side of his head,” Hewitt police officer Chad Kasting wrote in his report, citing the video he saw, “and then seconds later fire one shot point-blank to the side of his head and then fall to the ground.”
Aguilar's suicide is one of at least 15 for Fort Hood this year, breaking a post record. When he tumbled face-first to the ground next to a Valero gas pump, his life at an abrupt end, so too, was the promise that comes with youth. {read rest}
And extremely sadly this will continue to be the case! The Nation that finds no problem sending others into harms way, especially when there is absolutely no threat to them and not admit that, then refuses to even mention nor demand their own sacrifice, quite the opposite in fact, will be dealing with the results of these wars of choice in their communities for a long time and still not pay attention nor care!
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