Wrongful deaths
As he stood watch at Camp Pendleton’s guard shack in San Diego, somebody shot and killed Navy Seaman August Provost (seen in photo), then set the shack on fire to cover up the crime.
Another sailor has been arrested in connection with the homicide. Speculation is that Provost, 29, of Houston, was killed because of his sexual orientation.
If that is true, then Provost’s murder is perhaps more tragic than those killed in combat because he was killed by one of his own, for a reason that just shouldn’t matter.
Meanwhile, we grieve for two Oklahoma service members, both killed violently this month – one in Afghanistan; the other in Tennessee.
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tony Randolph, 21, of Henryetta, was killed by an IED in Afghanistan.
In Clarksville, Tenn. Army Spc. Brandon Buettner, 24, of Oklahoma City, was shot in the back and killed while trying to rescue a girlfriend from a gang-infested neighborhood.
Buettner was statopmed in Ft. Campbell, Ky. He had just returned in March from serving a year in Afghanistan. Go figure.
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