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MADem

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1. Jeez. Why not try to help keep vets OUT of jail!

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Mar 18, 2016, 06:11 AM

Mar 2016

This poor guy should have gotten help for his painkiller jones before he started stealing to get drug money:

Valdivia, 35, served in the Army from 1998 to 2006 with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He had multiple surgeries for injuries caused by a bomb, became addicted to painkillers and then turned to heroin, he said. He was convicted of breaking and entering and larceny, and has served 19 months on his sentence with 49 days left.

It's a shame.

You know what blows my mind? This guy served way more time than the guy who crashed his car at high and negligent speed, just under the legal alcohol limit, into my relative's vehicle, resulting in instant death.

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House of Correction in Middlesex opens first unit for vets [View all] unhappycamper Mar 2016 OP

Jeez. Why not try to help keep vets OUT of jail! MADem Mar 2016 #1

The military/VA is responsible for much of this problem. unhappycamper Mar 2016 #2

Agree with all you said. nt MADem Mar 2016 #3