Local Marine Stationed In Hawaii Severely Beaten While Off Duty

Normally I wouldn't write about things like this and I will attempt to link to the video, although with my limited computer abilities I may not be able to. The Marine that was attacked was/is my neighbor, Brad. I have known him since he and his family moved in when Brad was 12. As neighbors we weren't really close, the occasional conversation out by the mailbox, things of that nature. Brad was always a nice kid though. My favorite memory is when I was taking all the boys to the waterpark for my boy childs birthday and Brad was so excited that he got to ride in my Jetta that he almost couldn't sit still. "I get to ride in the Jetta. I'm riding with Kelli in the Jetta...that is such a cool car. I'm going with Kelli in the Jetta." He made me laugh, it was really cute. When I found out that he was going into the Marines after he graduated from high school, all I could do as a mother was worry, hope he wouldn't get shot and killed overseas and remember how cute he was about wanting to ride in my, "Cool, red Jetta."

To find out yesterday that he was flat out attacked, by multiple assailants, in the very country that he swore to defend makes me want to vomit. Apparently there is a "group" of people in Hawaii that do not like military servicemen and will attack them whenever they are alone. Of course there were no witnesses to Brads beating. No one is coming forward anyway. Those fuckers attacked him from behind, focused on beating him on the face and head, broke 18 bones in his face, rendered him partially blind and nobody saw anything. And strangely enough the police have absolutely no leads. A hundred bucks says that law enforcement has had prior contact with every single member of the "group" that attacked Brad.

To think that I was worried about him being shot or blown to bits by some IED seems sort of silly now. I can't seem to wrap my mind around the fact that this happened at home. In the good old U.S. of A. I know that it seems to be a pretty well known fact that Hawaiians don't particularly care for mainlanders, or howli's as we are referred to, but last time I checked those fuckers still enjoyed all of the freedoms that Brad swore to defend and protect. Look at a map, assholes. Hawaii is part of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Click on the title of the blog, evidently that is the link to the video/news story out of Hawaii.