The country he fought for failed him

This happens all the time. Justice should never depend upon where a veteran lives. Some cities and towns are well ahead of this, setting up Veterans Courts, and that's a good thing but it does not happen everywhere. Who is doing anything for the veterans in jail because they were arrested before courts started to address this? Who is making sure that if a veteran lives in an area without a veterans court receives the same kind of justice? You may want to write them off as criminals but keep in mind, they were not committing crimes before they deployed into combat, risking their lives for the sake of other people, and it is very unlikely they would have committed any crime had they not gone. Sometimes combat does things to a human just as any traumatic event will change the way people think and feel about everything.

'THE COUNTRY HE FOUGHT FOR HAS FAILED HIM'
Iraq war veteran in jail two years after Pahrump shootout

Wife waits for answers

By KEITH ROGERS

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Two years after her husband, an Iraq war veteran, snapped and engaged Nye County sheriff's deputies in a pre-dawn shootout on the outskirts of Pahrump, Sue Lamoureux wants some answers.

She wonders why he's still in jail and why it took 18 months to remove a bullet from his leg after the gunbattle at Terrible's Lakeside RV Park and Casino on Sept. 19, 2008.

She also wants authorities to explain why Joseph Patrick "Pat" Lamoureux, a former Army Reserve sergeant with no previous criminal history, would do such a thing.

"There is not an answer for that except he went to war and he came home broken," Sue Lamoureux said Friday. "The country he fought for has failed him, and most certainly, Nye County, Nevada is trying to crucify him."
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The country he fought for failed him