Today’s postcard was sent to the Family.

What I read was:

Daniel Hail – Page 9

For a long time I was uncomfortable with myself over the thought of taking advantage of my military background to land a cushy desk job. During that time I was still processing what I had been through and I was starting to wonder if I was contributing again to the problem of money and war by accepting to return as a defense contractor. Worse was my growing apprehension that everyone around me was also taking part in a collective delusion and denial that was used to justify our exorbitant salaries, for comparatively easy labor. The thing I feared most at the time was the temptation not to question it.

Me

Besides to inform, the video was done for me to work out in my mind my own history and present. While it was edited out of the video, when recording page 8 “Fazil wept”, I broke down. You might notice a bit of a change in the audio around the last paragraph of the letter as I had to record it twice since I fell apart.

The “collective delusion” on page 9 is what I was a part of at Ft. Rucker in Alabama. I was making six-figures while producing absolutely nothing. My “Christian brothers” who worked with me or managed the project did not want to address it, and eventually I was fired because I did. Ft. Rucker is where the US Army trains helicopter crews, such as the one that few over Iraq on the morning of July 12, 2007 while I was still in the first few months of my job. While I was being paid about $50 an hour to sit in the corner and play Spider Solitaire, Ethan McCord was pulling two kids out of a van shot up by people trained at Ft. Rucker. Then a rather troubled man (with emphasis on man, not woman) leaked the video of that day that we now know as Collateral Murder.

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I ended the video stating “nobody cares”. That was a mistake as care was shown today.

My Lady, I love you, and I miss you!