On April 23rd of the year 1968, the second child out of three, Timothy, was born to Bill and Madrid McVeigh. Timothy was born in Pendleton, New York and was the only boy out of the siblings. Mrs. And Mr. McVeigh worked a lot which made it hard for them to be able to spend time with Timothy. That's why he learned survival skills with the help of his beloved grandpa which he had become really close to. That's how he also learned about guns and developed an admiration towards them. Joining the military was a jackpot for him because he would get a lot of time to spend around guns and use them. The war didn't leave such a good scar in his mind though. All the tactics and survival skills got to him which led him to commit a mass murder attack in …show more content…
which there were numerous of fallen and injured victims. Timothy McVeigh at a young age was described as a tiny, skinny, and quiet young boy. Some said he was very social and "chill" whenever you got to really talking with him, but if you didn't, he always remained that shy boy to you. He was the kind of kid who wanted to do sports but knew it wasn't his thing. Yet, he still joined and ended up dropping those sports, because he wasn't necessarily skilled to do sports. Although, whenever he graduated from High School, he decided to attend business college to result dropping out about two years later. Timothy, still living with his father, worked at Burger King and believed in this crazy idea of how the society was going to have a big break down. In that case, he began stocking up with food and tons of guns just in case it actually happened. He and his friend even bought lots of acres only to change it into a shooting range where they could prepare themselves with no disturbance. Afterwards, he signed up to join the Army in which his Unit was transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas almost as immediately as he had signed up.
He became a corporal, sergeant, then platoon leader of his Unit. He had this very great devotion to the Military and its' ways. Some of the members of the same unit as him said he would spend most of his time cleaning and keeping his guns in good shape. Other of the members said he became addicted to this book called, ‘The Turner Series'. That book quickly became like his bible. Timothy then got the chance to apply at Special Forces where he always wanted to go, but his unit got sent to the Persian Gulf War soon after that. That made him lose the skills that he had gained in order to pass the test Special Forces makes them do before accepted. Whenever he went to try out, he was not able to complete the 90-minute march with a 45-pound pack, making him drop out 2 days later. That fail was his first fail in the military causing him to become bitter and sour. Timothy was no longer the same. He was turning into a bigger loner every day that passed by. McVeigh was forced to face 3 ½ years in the Army for enlisting again after quitting. As no surprise, he discharged from the service on Fall of 1991 and applied for a job as a security guard in which he became that upcoming January. On January 23rd, Timothy started to drive around the world as if he was a lost puppy, taking all his stuff with him everywhere in old cars, and living in horrible places. It got to the point where him using his survival skills made him sleep in a sleeping bag on the side of the
road. There's still no accurate reason why Timothy caused the massive explosives. It could've been because he really disagreed with the government or even because his mom left whenever he was 16 and took his two sisters. One reason for sure that made him mad was whenever he witnessed a stand-off between a Federal Agent vs. a Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas in 1995. He had that weird type of love toward the government in which he hated but, loved the government at the same time. Timothy though was driven to the point of obsession towards the book, ‘The Turner Series' in where he panicked whenever the explosions and riots that he was witnessing through the TV, were becoming true during 1993 as the book had predicted. Timothy's journey had no stopping anytime soon. He spent his time with two of his Unit members, Michael Fortier and Terry Nichols which were proven to be in groups with bad intentions. As that said, there was no proof Timothy was involved in any groups like those, but there were assumptions about him attending at least a meeting of the Michigan Militia. Proof later showed up where Timothy and his friend, Terry, bought a huge amount of Ammonia Nitrate which is used for making home bombs. On April 19th, 1995 at 8:40 a.m., witnesses explain seeing a moving truck going into the Federal building and just minutes later, a man running away tempting to escape. Not even 5 minutes later, a huge explosive happens, exploding 9 floors of the building, killing 168 people of which 19 were children, and leaving over 500 injured. This explosion and with a suspect on the loose caused a man-hunt all throughout town and the surrounding ones. Timothy then was pulled over by a police on the highway for having no tags on his car but was arrested for carrying a gun and a bomb. The gun had illegal ammo inside and the feds were not alerted until a woman notified the feds who the bomber was. That led the FBI to find Timothy and where he was being held at. Tim was then taken into custody by the FBI where he presented himself at a court in Denver, Colorado on April 24th, 1997 where he showed zero remorse towards the fallen people. He then was announced the person to blame for the biggest mass murder in the U.S. He was also convicted on 11 counts and weapons giving him the death sentence. McVeigh was locked up with the worst offenders and ended up on death row in 1999. Which he tried for his appeal multiple times, but failed. Five days before, on May 11th, Timothy's death was postponed to a month later because FBI failed to deliver information to Tim's attorney. The end of his story then arrived on June 11th, at the age of 33 where he requested his family to show up to his death, but no one showed up. He was put down with the lethal injection and just like that, a nightmare ended. In my opinion, Timothy wasn't punished as much. He was granted a ticket to escape from the punishment of his actions against other people. I think he should've done more time in jail because they put him down and he didn't suffer his consequences. He knew just how to do it and get away with the least punishment.
Two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine High School around 11:19 A.M. with 99 home-made explosives, a 9mm carbine, a pump shotgun, and a double barrel shotgun. As well as being accompanied by four knives. Both managed to murder thirteen innocent people in total, twelve students and one teacher.
"Columbine High School Shootings." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. Eighteen year old Eric Harris and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold were two boys with a fascination of violent video games and music. These young men were known to be “goth” and were bullied all throughout their high school careers because of their different interest. In 1999, on April 20th these boys went into their high school with mixed emotions and a devious plan to get revenge. The two teens went into the high school with handguns and killed both students and faculty members, before they turned the guns around on themselves. This is a reliable source because it informed us of both previous emotion, and the aftermath of the tragedy with detail about the boys, the school and the lives affected. This source was relevant for me because of how thoroughly it described the shooting, and gave me background information as to why and how it happened.
From there, an investigation was conducted and agents found traces of chemicals on McVeigh’s clothing, similar to the ones from the bomb. They learned that McVeigh’s plan was due to the anger over the events at the Waco Siege two years earlier. The bombing investigation was one of the most exhaustive in FBI history; “the Bureau had conducted more than 28,000 interviews, followed some 43,000 investigative leads, amassed three-and-a-half tons of evidence, and reviewed nearly a billion pieces of information.” (FBI.com) The Oklahoma City bombing was “considered the worst and the largest terrorist act ever committed on U.S. soil.”
his future life is finally result of what he is today, he grew up to become a dedicated veteran, a
In past history, heroes come in many different facets of life. The military has produced many of these heroes. Chris Kyle a United States Navy SEAL was one of those heroes. Chris grew up in various locations in Texas. His father worked for AT&T as a manager and they moved around frequently. Chris loved to fight as he stated “Somewhere along the way, I started sticking up for younger kids who were being picked on. I felt I had to look out for them. It became my duty. Maybe it began because I was looking for an excuse to fight without getting in trouble” (American Sniper, Chris Kyle, 21).
After attending the Muskogee Public Schools system, he learned he enjoyed boxing and art. After a short period in the U.S. Navy, he returned home to Muskogee where under the tutelage of his older brother, who had attended an exemplary art school, he learned the traditional style of Native American art; He became well known as an artist, where his works were often emulated. He died at the young age of 26 from an accidental gunshot that killed him in 1967. E. Timothy McVeigh
Over a three week period in October 2002 a series of random sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington D.C. area. The shootings happened in in various establishments such as super markets, gas stations, restaurants and near schools turning normal tranquil areas into chaotic murder fields. There were no age group, gender or ethnicity that was safe, Victims were randomly selected and everyone was targeted. After the murderous spree, ten people were declared dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were finally apprehended while they were sleeping at a resting spot and later identified as forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old Jamaican-American protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
John Allen Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, was born on December 31, 1960 in Louisiana. After the passing of his mom when Muhammad was the age of four, his aunt, Baton Rouge raised him. After Muhammad finished high school he married Carol Kaglear. They had a son and named him Linbergh. He then started a military career that was promising at first. His commanders described him as personable and outgoing. By the early 1980’s his cracks were beginning to show. He failed to report for duty and hit an officer, resulting in trouble (Biography, par 1, 2, 3).
But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage."” Harris and Klebold could’ve chosen any place to stage their bombing as it wasn’t about the school. The school had absolutely nothing to do with their intentions, it was just an opportunity to do what they dreamed of doing. They had no intention of starting a school shooting as was stated in the same article as above, “The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale…. It wasn 't just "fame" they were after… they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power.”
On the day of the Columbine High School Massacre, previously to the attack both Erick D. Harris and Dylan B. Klebold placed a decoy bomb in a field; they had set the bombs to explode at 11:14 to distract police officials. The two boys then headed to the school and entered the commons shortly after 11:14 a.m. and went unnoticed carrying the big duffel bags with propane bombs inside of them. They placed the two twenty pound duffel bags in the cafeteria with the bombs set to explode at 11:17 a.m. They went back outside and armed themselves, they each strapped on an arsenal covered with a trench coat, a semiautomatic, a shotgun, and a backpack full of different types of bombs. The boys then set the timers on the bombs set inside each of their cars outside the school. The boys sat outside armed waiting outside for the bombs to explode and shoot any
While the sheriff was banging on his door, James was talking to his mother and told her he couldn’t go back and ruin everything he ever worked for. He told his mom that he killed 213 people and that he couldn’t live like that, reliving every single memory every single night, wanting to kill himself and not wanting to disappoint his family. After that James picked up a gun and shot himself right in the head. After the suicide the Marines tried to deny all of his benefits for the family because they said he died a deserter. In the end after several court hearings, they finally gave the benefits to family because they ruled he had PTSD and that the Marines never diagnosed him with it and that they didn’t even try to help him.
Clancy grew up with interests and intentions surrounding the military. He was born Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr. (“Tom” Web) on April 12, 1947 (Lansford 381) in Baltimore, Maryland (Byers 70). His parents both had occupations; his father was a mail carrier and his mother was a credit manager. Growing up, Clancy had a love for reading as he often read (“Tom” Web). He enjoyed reading science fiction and military related books (Lansford 382).
As was seen in the movie, Chris Kyle had to endure his struggle with PTSD with little or no available help when he initially returned home (Hoge,2014). He had the unwavering support of his wife however she is portrayed as not being able to understand the difficulty her husband is having returning home after war. Chris Kyle found it difficult to talk about some of the gruesome things he had both witnessed and done while incombat - not uncommon in soldiers dealing with PTSD (Zoellner, 2001 and Treitschke, 2015).They showed how he struggled to reconnect with his wife and children to the point he was willing to go back to serve three more tours of duty feeling that was all he knew to do to cope(Treitschke, 2015). He had earned the nickname "Punisher" because of his reputation as a sniper on the battlefield, yet seemed to be unable to identify with himself as Chris Kyle ("Chris KyleAmerican Sniper"). He simply could not go back to his life as it was prior to his first deployment for
He went to the bow of the boat and cried inside of a boat. It was very loud and very hard. Elroy was still with him so he just remained quiet and just kept fishing. Elroy was very quiet as if there was no one there, as if Tim was just in the boat and nothing around him but water and maybe some trees. I think at this moment Elroy know that going through this process is real. As they return home, Tim drives threw the whole town that he is familiar with and goes through certain forest such as the pine forest and to the prairie. After he passes through everything he wanted he was finally on his way to Vietnam where he would finally be a soldier. During the war he would survive but he says it wasn’t a happy ending because he felt like he was a coward. So my conclusion is that I see why he had second thoughts about going to war. The reason he had second thoughts is because he didn’t want to leave so many love ones and other people that were important to him. If that was me I probably would have second thoughts to because I don’t want to die early or leave everything behind. Tim also has second thoughts because he knows the consequences if he doesn 't go to the war. I feel his pain and what he was going through because this is a big step in life of what he had to go through. Now that he finally went to war I know that his family is most likely proud of what he did even though Tim isn’t proud of himself. During this whole story I know Tim experiences great courage and a whole new part of life. One last thing I think is that Tim might have overcame his fear of certain things and making a decision to overcome
“Why would you want to interview me when there are plenty of people back home that would be easier to interview in person?” asks John Stout. He is about 5’11, has dark black hair and his eyes are a rich chocolaty brown. He is tan and has a strong muscular body. John is currently deployed in Bagram Afghanistan. He departed on July 7th, 2016 and will not return until April of 2017. He grew up in Fort Ripley, MN and graduated from Brainerd High School in 2014. John is very close with his Mother, Father, Brother and Sister. He grew up with a wrench in his hand and always helped his Father work on project cars and fixing things around the house. To John, family is everything. His family always took vacations and every summer, he gets to travel around the United States for Army training. John grew up in a military family. His Father works as a Warrant Officer in the Minnesota National Guard and his Brother, Curtis, is in the Marine Corps and is also deployed right now.John has always wanted to serve his country