From YouTube:
Speaking from prison, Iraqi war veteran Andrew “Sarge” Chambers tells the story of how he got there. As the judge told him when he sentenced Chambers to 10 years at Marion Correctional: “Your time in Iraq makes you a threat to society.” Chambers reminds us of the sacrifices that linger with soldiers — and simply asks us to listen.
Andrew “Sarge” Chambers proudly hails from Pickerington, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army and has maintained the habit he acquired there of cursing just a bit too much. Throughout his service, Sarge was also able to maintain and hone his sense of honor and kindness, but the experience did slightly alter his sense of humor. While categorically not a morning person, when he is able to finally pry his eyes open, he always thinks to himself that he would rather be fishing. Most of his days are filled with coaching softball, Garth Brooks songs and thoughts of the family he hopes to be able to start soon. He is taking the stage to tell his story, parts of which can be seen in the documentary Operation Resurrection: The Warrior Returns. After TEDxMarionCorrectional he will work on his next unique thing.
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I know how he feels. I didn’t realize it at the time but my wife reminded me that when I got home from my last Afghanistan rotation I was “off” for a little while until I got back to normal. Having to live like that is not something anyone should have to do, especially at the direction of an ungrateful SOB like the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
[…] Your time in Iraq makes you a threat to society: Andrew Chambers at TEDxMarionCorrectionalSalon 2013 (ncrenegade.com) […]
The agenda of the Brotherhood is to decommission the US military and comfortably merge us with the Soviet Union, eventually leaving only a world army to enforce internal security. The judge was probably an adept of the Brotherhood, and is merely carrying out their well-laid plan of identifying, vilifying, nullifying, and ultimately destroying our armed forces and national sovereignty. If Andrew Chambers was an initiate and displayed the universal esoteric distress signals to the judge, by the dictates of their blood oath, he wouldn’t have spent one day in jail.