Marine Had Cousin Shoot Him To Avoid Returning To Iraq

[matcom]

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CHICAGO -- A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq persuaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit by random gang gunfire, authorities said.

The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernandez from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said.

He was charged with filing a false police report. His cousin, Juan Hernandez, 19, faces a felony weapons charge.

Moises Hernandez is back with his unit at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and the Marines are investigating the incident. His unit had returned June 5 from a six-month deployment that included a month in Iraq.

The young man's father, Ray Hernandez, said his son also had been sent to Indonesia after the devastating tsunami in December. The father said his son had seen death up close and was troubled by nightmares when he returned home.

"Whatever he experienced changed him totally," the senior Hernandez said.

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[tk2kewl]

1. Canda isn't that far from Chicago...

better option? :shrug:

[DS1]

3. Get in a rowboat and go for it

!

[WeRQ4U]

2. This pisses me off.

This poor SOB goes to Iraq and see's his buddies die. He's so fucked up when he returns home, and so fears to go back, that he resorts to having someone SHOOT him instead.

And NOW they want to put him and his friend in the clink for it. I've got an idea, how about get the kid some US funded therapy for messing up his mind for life. What the fuck is going on in this country?

[TX-RAT]

4. similar incident here in the late 60's

Our neighbors son cut off his right index finger with an axe, to keep from being drafted. Turns out he had flat feet.