Injured Hearts, Injured Minds

Video supplement to Injured Hearts, Injured Minds, from The Texas Observer, August 7, 2009

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• killeen
• fort hood
• ft hood
• mike kern
• matthew gossage
• forrest wilder
• under the hood
• iraq
• veterans

[ninammam]

Thank you! You are a TRUE HERO!!!

[NOLAAwesomeGirls]

Excellent coverage of an often-overlooked and extremely important issue. Thanks to the Texas Observer and the filmmaker for making this.

[cushman19]

Thanks for putting our unit and deployment to shame with your made up bullshit. Stop watching war movies, go get drunk and get some pussy, you need it desperately. I hope your circle jerk faggot packed coffee shop burns down and you all catch HIV from one another. -Cushman

[GIggidy209]

Hey Kern I've been talking to the guys. None of us remember you firing a single round. I do remember you filling your ammo pouches with honey buns. HA HA Every one knows your a fraud

[MeWatchYouToo]

its langen.... I was with 1-66 too, and still keep in touch with most of you guys. Kern your a bitch.... why lie man? man up and tell the truth, dont deface the real heros that were there fighting by your side.....

[GIggidy209]

Before Kern went to " combat stress" he came to me and told me " i know how to get out of doing misssions". There wasn't anything actually wrong with him. He's a lazy piece of shit. It's not like his job was hard anyway, he was a driver, sitting on his ass every mission. N saying he took part in killing, he was a driver. NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS

[KingDingaling1337]

I was one of Kern's team leaders, SGT Rosa-Valentin, and he is lying out of his ass. Help is easy to get. you go to the hospital and you get an appointment. anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't want help. what they want is an excuse for their poor behavior. the army is on top of mental health because of so much public opinion.

your "war crimes" stories are a bold faced lie and you know it. theres nothing wrong with being against the war but when you lie to make your point your a traitor.

[GIggidy209]

KERN JUST ADMIT IT YOU JUST WANT A PITY PARTY. YOU CAN LIE TO THE CAMERAS, BUT THEIR ARE A LOT OF PPL WHO WERE THERE WITH YOU WHO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED OVER THERE. WITH IN 5 MIN OF MY FACEBOOK POST 3 PPL FROM 1-66 HAD SOMETHING TO SAY BOUT IT. THIS AND "FIRE MISSION" SHOULD GET READY FOR A FLOOD OF COMMENTS FROM THE REAL SOLDIERS OF 1-66. YOUR A BITCH AND A LIAR.

[GIggidy209]

Guess what its Boris. I was in Iraq with Kern in the same platoon. Kern didn't mention having mental problems to me. He did mention that if you go to "combat stress" you don't have to go on missions for a while. Him and some others hung back while the rest of us picked up their slack. Another lie: saying that we opened fire on civilians after being hit with IED's. We opened fire on the enemy and the enemy only. He has shamed himself and the rest of us, most importantly our fallen comrades

[iwsab]

Please commit suicide. You deserve the death penalty for Abu Gurabe and raping young children in Iraq. And... hand off Iraq's oil : ) .

[Antgne]

Now THIS is Supporting the Troops, America! We should be ashamed that our military would allow these guys to give it all and then turn our backs on them!