KWTX
July 31, 2012
FORT HOOD
An investigation was underway Monday into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of Fort Hood Sgt. Clinton Truman Kunze, 29, of Moody, who was a veteran of four deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kunze died of a gunshot wound on Thursday at Fort Hood, but no further details were provided.
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Clinton was a beautiful man. Wounded, but a good man. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the devastating effects of war on our men & women. People who serve us and sacrifice for us deserve better. They should have learned from Viet Nam. Sgt. Kunze did FOUR tours overseas... with every tour the demons got worse. May his soul finally be at rest, he earned it. Forever my BOSS.
ReplyDeleteI served with him in Afghanistan and went through bootcamp. Together I too have had problems with society. We will always love and remember the good times together he was my brother.
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I miss u daddy and wish u were here more than anything love u
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ReplyDeleteI am so sorry this keeps happening. There are too many families left to grieve and most blame themselves. Why? All these years later and still they don't know what they need to know?
ReplyDeleteThere is a group, Purple Star Families looking for signatures to take to congress. I put up a post this morning about it. http://woundedtimes.blogspot.com/2012/08/spc-trever-goulds-mom-fights-to-stop.html
It has become an epidemic. Why we didn't learn from Viet Nam is beyond me. Those that don't kill themselves resort to self-medicating with drugs, alchohol or both. Their loved ones are helpless. I am sick & tired of this being swept under the rug. It is unAmerican. Sgt. Clinton Kunze is & always will be my hero. Please, please, please keep updating on the investigation into his death.
ReplyDeleteI won't stop until they finally get what they need. Too many people blame themselves when someone they love can't spend another day on this earth.
ReplyDeleteHow can I help? I have signed the petition and passed it to friends. What else?
ReplyDeleteYou are already helping by making sure people know what's going on. Thanks for sending the link to the petition.
ReplyDeleteYou can leave a comment on a news article saying what you feel. I always put up links to the stories I track. This way it lets the reporters know you care about what they are covering. You can contact your member of congress and ask them when they will finally come up with programs and bills that actually work.
If we show them we are outraged over all of this, they'll have to do something for real and not keep getting away with pretending to have learned anything.
You can make sure people know about this blog so they keep up with what is going on and take action too.
There's a tear in the fabric of his being where the memories lie waiting to remind him of the horror and the carnage that is cataloged as war which civilians never see for it'd shatter their reality and leave them in a state of what to call it i don't know but it's tipped the balance of the GI Joe who comes to calmer waters where life's normal once again but he's having trouble fitting in for he's shaken bad internally; it's a price they paid for defending but the dreams are never ending.
ReplyDeleteAll is not hopeless. They just haven't found what they need to really give them hope they can believe in. When they find the strength to ask for help and help does not come, hope slips away. They go online looking for answers and find the wrong place at the wrong time started by people who have no clue and they get lost in all the rants.
ReplyDeleteThey end up spending their days trying to find answers and then miss where the answers really are.
This country will never get it right as long as we keep claiming we're doing all we can when we are still not doing what they need.
I knew Sgt CLinton Kunzie from our two deployments we spent back to BK from enlisted to his NCO days he was a good man being a fellow soilder wit ptsd we talked bout things to help get through the day but I never would've. Thought this would happen I'd give my on life to suit up an rock to carry-on. What the my brothers who have passed before me but my chapter wont let me without. A wavior I will miss him dearly
ReplyDeleteGOD SPEED SGT.
ESSAYONS SAPPERS LEAD THE WAY
I hope you are healing.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of Clinton. I wish he would've reached out to me as he had in the past. He lives in my soul now. JJ Gray you hang in there and above all thank you for your service and sacrifice!!! Reach out when you need to, we are here for you!
ReplyDeleteThis is Leslie. Clinton is my baby brother. None of us knew the hardship he endured while serving in the military. Change never happens in the past, though. If we can do anything different it must be as we move forward. If you have any friends or family in the military - ask them how they are - and really pause to listen and show them you want to know and help with the truth. Stay on the phone as long as it takes. Drive to where they are no matter the distance. Change never starts in the past. I miss him too - but mostly I am grateful for him. I love him and don't regret one moment or feel any shame. I am grateful.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry for you and your family. I read too many of these stories over the years and decided to do something about putting all the information on this blog together, well, most of it anyway.
ReplyDeleteTHE WARRIOR SAW, SUICIDES AFTER WAR if for the all who suffer including the families.
I am editing the book for Kindle and I am adding his story into it because of what you just wrote. We lose too many. Email me and I'll get you a PDF of the book and a link for you to pass on. woundedtimes@aol.com
Whenever you think of him, remember his laugh and his hugs, he is with you. Whenever you do good things for others because he did good things for others, he is with you.
ReplyDeleteAll the people we love never really leave us. A trace of them stays with us forever.
I knew Clint(BOSS) on a personal level and he was an extraordinary man. And he had a beautiful heart. I really hope that we can raise more awareness for our men and women that come home after such a traumatic event. He will forever be in our hearts.
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