Two decades in the Army, woman wondered why no one helped her before she died

She said she had served her country, and she didn't know why nobody would help her.

How many others are left to wonder the same thing? What did they do wrong? They not only worked for their living, this wife served the country for two decades in the Army. Everything they worked for was gone and now their lives are. According to this report, the police are not saying who shot who but that doesn't really matter because this never should have happened.

Julie Fay, neighbors said, worked at Fort Belvoir and at pharmacies. Army records show that Fay, 56, retired in 2001 after two decades in the service. She spent six years serving in Germany and received commendation medals, achievement medals, a national defense service medal and a sharpshooter marksmanship qualification badge with grenade bar, officials said.

Couple Shot in Murder-Suicide, Police Say
Home in Dumfries Had Been Lost, and Husband's Job Transfer Had Fallen Through
By Maria Glod and Meg Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Wallis and Julie Fay said life seemed to be closing in on them. They lost the Prince William County home, where they lived for more than 15 years, to foreclosure. Eviction was looming. And on Tuesday, Wallis Fay learned that the job transfer he was counting on had fallen through.

"He said: 'I don't know what to do. I'm at my last straw,' " said Bernice Fortune, a neighbor who answered a call from a shaken Wallis Fay just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. "I said: 'Hold on to your faith. Hand it over to God.' "

Fortune, who was at a prayer group at a nearby IHOP, promised to call when she got home. There was no answer at the Fays a half-hour later. Assuming they had gone to sleep, Fortune left a prayer on their answering machine.

But by then, Fortune said, the couple might have been dead.

Prince William police ruled that the Fays were shot to death in a murder-suicide. Police are not revealing who pulled the trigger or why, but friends are blaming the tragedy on the stress and upheaval of financial turmoil. Property records show their red-brick townhouse was foreclosed on in June.

"She came to me and said the bank had took their house from them," recalled Abigail Robertson, a neighbor who had been helping the couple pack. "She seemed stressed out. She said all this moving, it was too much for her. She said she had served her country, and she didn't know why nobody would help her."
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Couple Shot in Murder Suicide, Police Say