A Marine Corps combat veteran and scout sniper with multiple deployments to Afghanistan and multiple injuries to show for it was recently found dead at his home. He was 28. He gained fame when he and three other Marines made a video of themselves urinating on Taliban corpses. He was prosecuted for his actions. Too bad the military cares more about what its personnel do with dead bodies than the fact that they kill people. (And no, I am not excusing what the Marine did. And neither am I excusing him for urinating on dead bodies.)

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