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Vietnam veteran, 68, with dementia died from being body-slammed by Alabama police officer after mistakenly trying to enter home he believed was his own
2024-04-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tragedy of errors. Generally, until one sees the decline over time in someone one knows well, it’s hard to recognize the pattern in the behaviours.
  • Carl Grant died six months after his spinal cord was wrecked by police body slam

  • Georgia dementia patient got confused and drove to Birmingham, Alabama

  • Vincent Larry pushed him down stairs at stranger's house, slammed him in ER
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  It is remotely possible. I'm 66. Saigon fell when I was a senior in high school. Remember it well. Two adzwhole classmates (Karl and Fritz IKYN) paraded a VC (they said) flag through the halls.
Posted by: Cured Romantic    2024-04-03 19:14  

#5  It is a tragedy.
Perhaps they mean "Vietnam-era vet". They are journalists after all, bless their hearts.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-04-03 09:12  

#4  If he were born in 1956, and enlisted at age 18, he would have had to have been in Vietnam in 74 or 75. That's pretty late in the conflict. Who knows Whiskey Mike.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-03 07:09  

#3  Several phone screens down from the misleading headline: Grant died almost six months later on July 24, 2020, aged 69.

"You mean, like Democrats journolists?"
Posted by: Unose Uleresing8817   2024-04-03 07:01  

#2  I agree, very sad. But. I hit 75 recently. I was an 11B4P in RVN from 68 through 70. He was 68. The math doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone help me here?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-04-03 05:53  

#1  Very sad.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-03 01:49  

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