Comments on: PTSD Deserves Presidential Attention

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:05:03 +0000

My sisters murder should have been prevented not only by the army but by those that knew that he was a violent person. her real family and friends are still as hurt today as we were the morning we learned what happened to her. I myself am glad that Kevin is not alive why should he be able to live when he KILLED Cassie. i do hope that he was able to ask that he be forgiven, i wish hell upon no one.
havn a hard life or hard way growing up is NOT an excuse to murder.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:41:28 +0000

Perhaps you both should do more research. Any article related to the Ft. Bliss shooting mentions Cassie’s and Kevin’s deaths.Cassie died on April 4, 2009 and Kevin died on April 5, 2009. He was kept on life support for a reason….although he did a horrible thing, he did a good thing by donating his organs. But, I bet you don’t find one article that mentions that! Kevin did NOT have a rap sheet full of violent crimes. You have no idea if he was affected or not with PTSD. Just because he wasn’t a soldier doesn’t mean he never suffered any traumatic episodes in his life. And from “what you know of him”….does that mean you DIDN’T know him?!? Did you even know Cassie?
Do you know what your misinformation does to BOTH families? Do you even think about that before you write your non-factual comments? Don’t you think that both families have suffered by the tragedy? It’s a double tragedy. Both families lost their own child and both families lost another child with the loss of their daughter in law or son in law.
And as far as PTSD being treated by the military, you are right….our soldiers are NOT getting the proper treatment. Please continue to fight for it.
Again, please check and double check your facts before writing your comments. Your personal opinions are just that….YOUR opinions. But when it comes to things about other people, make sure that you really know what you’re talking about.
Thank you.

By: Hennessy Shaw

Hennessy Shaw — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:51:13 +0000

Well, the purpose of my story is to shed light to cases that are occuring across the country where soldiers and their families are being killed because no one is looking into anything. PTSD is a main cause of many offenses and though not all cases are due to that, it is still an impoortant topic. Though double checking my research, the elpasotimes.com no longer had the article where i recieved my information since it is removed from their archived stories. I did now find an obituary on Kevin Beckel which i did not come across during my research since i did not have his name. This story was not based around the Beckels, it was based around necessary attention.

By: David Hagler

David Hagler — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:19:46 +0000

Cassie’s husband from what I know of him was not an enlisted man, he was a violent person to begin with, and not affected by PTSD, he was affected with total control disorder – if she left his sight for longer than a few minutes, he felt threatened that she would leave him, or did leave him. He was a disgusting creature, but not a soldier – and if you read any of the stories that mention him, you’d have read that he was a convicted felon, and has a pretty good rap sheet for violent crimes.

BTW, kevin’s dead, he died the next morning, you’d think a year later you’d get that information right. I mean there isn’t an article anywhere that I can find that even mentions he’s alive, only that his attempt at suicide was less than .. effective at first. – he was on life support for a few hours – but they removed that after declaring him brain dead.

I think you just used the tragedy slightly modified to support your original argument. as more “supporting evidence” to your cause. .. whatever…