UNKNOWN SOLDIERS

There are soldiers everywhere.
Some have to go to war and come home, a statistic, waiting to happen.
Some are raised to become a statistic, waiting to happen.

01/01/2013Sad World We Live In!
Marine's death ruled an accident
Military - Sgt. William Wold's parents question the results of an autopsy that blamed medication
Friday, February 02, 2007
DEE ANNE FINKEN
The Oregonian

The death of a 23-year-old Marine from Camas, Wash., in early November was an accident, according to the San Diego County medical examiner, but the sergeant's parents say the report prompts more questions than answers, including whether the military properly treated him.

"How can they justify this as an accident? And whose accident is it?" said Sandra Wold, the mother of Sgt. William C. Wold. His body was found in his San Diego bunk three days after his discharge from a military hospital. He was at the facility to be treated for post-traumatic stress disorder that his family said caused a drug addiction.

In a report dated Jan. 8, the medical examiner concluded Wold's death was "best listed as methadone, clonazepam, diazepam, and fluoxetine toxicity."

In a report dated Jan. 8, the medical examiner concluded Wold's death was "best listed as methadone, clonazepam, diazepam, and fluoxetine toxicity."

Two friends discovered the Marine in his bed at barracks affiliated with the Balboa Naval Medical Center. The night before, the three had gone out for tattoos and returned to Wold's quarters to eat fast food and watch a movie.

Sandra Wold of Camas said her son had not been prescribed methadone at the time of his death. But he had been prescribed the anti-addiction drug along with the three other medications during hospitalizations two months earlier at California military facilities at Camp Pendleton and in Palo Alto.

"Those were not lethal drugs at Camp Pendleton, and they were in the same combination," Wold said Thursday in a phone interview. "How can that be?"

Marines public affairs officers at Camp Pendleton, where William Wold had been stationed, declined to comment, saying details weren't immediately available.

Wold, who was buried Nov. 17 in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Vancouver, enlisted in the Marines at 17 and was selected to guard President Bush for three years at Camp David before going to Iraq in 2004. In fighting in Fallujah that year, he suffered a blast injury.

His mother said the war also severely affected her son emotionally and psychologically, and that led to his drug problem.

One incident he found particularly tough to forget involved a vehicle running a roadblock. Directed to fire as the vehicle came through the roadblock, the troops later discovered the van had been filled with children. The incident left Wold unable to sleep, eat or be among crowds.

He re-enlisted, his mother said, hoping to find solace in the company of others in the military. But, according to official records, he was unable to complete a substance abuse program and was being readied for military discharge when he was moved from the naval hospital to the barracks.

The Department of the Navy has said it is performing a criminal investigation into Wold's death, but it is not complete.
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My dad did 3 tours in Vietnam. When he got off the plane the first thing that happened to him is the welcome home sign his mother was holding for him was ripped from her hands and thrown on the ground and they threw food at him. I always thought Alice in Chains - Rooster was the perfect song to explain my dads situation. It paints the situation of Vietnam perfectly.

I'm glad that people treat soldiers better today then they did then. I haven't really read though the post so I can't make any statements.

This song is based off Layne Staley's fathers experiences in Vietnam and in the Army. Rooster refers to the soldiers of 101st Airborne Division. The Vietnamese saw the eagle patch and called them rooster soldiers because they were all men and roosters are male. Being an unpopular war, soldiers coming home on leave or permanently, would be greeted by hippies and war protestors who would spit on them and hurl dog shit at them in paper bags as they came off the plane.

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Posted by AllanBeau
My dad did 3 tours in Vietnam. When he got off the plane the first thing that happened to him is the welcome home sign his mother was holding for him was ripped from her hands and thrown on the ground and they threw food at him. I always thought Alice in Chains - Rooster was the perfect song to explain my dads situation. It paints the situation of Vietnam perfectly.

I'm glad that people treat soldiers better today then they did then. I haven't really read though the post so I can't make any statements.

My dad was a WW2 Vet and I remember him saying what a disgrace that whole thing was...the men that fought in Vietnam didn't have a choice, they were drafted. The draft was still in effect back in the sixties.

Most of those idiots were College brats, Yalies, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, all those Ivy League Universities. Kids that had parents with money and wanted to piss mommy and daddy off with their rebellious political views.

Back in those days there were no Financial Aid Programs and Scholarships were for really, really smart kids....If your parents didn't have the money, you weren't going to college.

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Well you could also be like Kerri and purposely get purple hearts. He got one for injuring himself... Your not supposed to get one for that. BUT he somehow managed to get three of them. My dad says it was bullshit that he saved those people on an abandon boat. He left them and took credit for it.

Yeah my dad was drafted...He didn't dodge the draft. Now he is a 100% disabled Vet with every mental disorder you can list off. That war messed up people. The people who came back from WWII had parades for them.

Woodrow Wilson forewarned Kennedy about the war too if I'm not mistaken. That it would have the same outcome as Korea. That was another mistake. But we call it the "Forgotten War" for a reason. It seems all wars are stupid.

Now a whole bunch of them are dying from Cancer. Who knows what kind of chemicals they were exposed to...The effects of the Agent Orange.

The Venetians Hospital won't help you right away...They will drag on your case if you have a serious illness to the point that your dead. In some ways we do treat our Veterans wrong.

Posted by DeeGee
^^So true ....my dad had problems too....he was a recluse and didn't bathe sometimes for a month...I guess that was something he carried over from the war. He was over in Europe for almost 3 years...

He saw his cousin die and 100's of others.

Yeah not taking care of yourself is definitely a sign of giving up. I sometimes go though periods where I forget to bathe when I just have no motivation. My room mate is in the Army. Hes about to do his second deployment this coming August. Hes expected to have a baby in May so he is going to miss the first year of his sons life. That got to be hard.

When your a soldier it is as if you have to give up on family. Your first duty is to protect the country and leave your family behind. That got to be taxing on a person. And the feeling of not knowing if tomorrow is promised. Did he fight in Europe or Asia?

At least I have something to be proud of my father for. He did serve his country. Regardless how messed up it was. Just think of all the people that praise the 60's flower children as some "enlightened" generation not having any compassion for their fellow man. VERY SELFISH. That's why the Pluto in Leo generation is known as the "ME" generation.

Oh you answered my question I went back and re-read it sorry. Europe was a WAY harder war front. I would have been scared. The cup of Joe and the pack of smokes they offered for enlistment wouldn't have been enough to make me feel safe lol