The Cursed Platoon

[demmiblue]

Only a few hours had passed since President Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible.

How could a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, be forgiven so easily? How could their president allow him to just walk free?

“I feel like I’m in a nightmare,” Lucas Gray, a former specialist from the unit, texted his old squad leader, who was out of the Army and living in Fayetteville, N.C.

“I haven’t been handling it well either,” replied Mike McGuinness on Nov. 15, the day Lorance was pardoned.

“There’s literally no point in anything we did or said,” Gray continued. “Now he gets to be the hero .?.?.”

“And we’re left to deal with it,” McGuinness concluded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/

Link to tweet

[raging moderate]

1. Dear 1st Platoon Men: Wait.

You will see justice.

Many people see you and stand with you.

[KPN]

2. Didn't I read somewhere in the last couple days

that intelligence sources first identified Russian bounties in October-November 2019. Trump pardoned Lorance on November 15th. Could the two be connected? Was this Trumps grisly instinctive response?

This nightmare of a President has me imagining the unimaginable almost daily. I cannot wait till he is gone and my mind can return to normal.