Indiana family charges Army failed wounded soldier

[Contrary1]

How Bush's Army takes care of the heroes that aren't on camera. Perhaps Sgt. Cassidy refused to wear a flag pin on the lapel of his pajamas. My disgust for this president has found a new low.

"An Indiana National Guardsman who died while in the care of an Army unit for wounded soldiers was alone, in excruciating pain and had not been seen by doctors for days, his family said Tuesday.

Sgt. Gerald Cassidy, 32, of Westfield, Ind., died in a chair on the third floor of a renovated barracks at Fort Knox, Ky., in September -- five months after arriving at the post with what his family said was brain damage suffered in a roadside explosion in Iraq.

Cassidy's mother, Kay McMullen, of Carmel, Ind., said the manner of his death -- and inconsistent treatment that included the Army denying him pain medication -- cast doubt on the quality of care for service members if the severely wounded are being left to fend for themselves.
"He died because the Army didn't care for him," she said tearfully. "He came back from Iraq, and they killed him."

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A military autopsy had not been fully completed Tuesday, but results of an independent examination performed at the request of the family could not determine a cause of death. That autopsy, however, found Cassidy had been dead for hours before being found and may have been unconscious for days. Cassidy's body was found in his room on Sept. 21. Military officials checked on Cassidy only after his wife made repeated calls to the post begging for help, McMullen said..."

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071010/LOCAL/710100497

[ThomCat]

1. Am I the only one who thinks that

we need to fire a whole lot of people in the military hierarchy and replace all of them for gross incompetence?