Old Dad
2007-08-20 08:31:59
Assuming that Ms. Reeve is a “fact checker,” that explains why the diaries got a pass. It’s clear that the pieces could not have been rigorously, or even cursorily fact checked.
I also wonder, along with Richard Aubrey above, about STB’s state of mind. I suppose it’s possible that he was so ignorant and poor a soldier that he didn’t know that he was writing nonsense. That seems unlikely, though. One alternative is that he knew he would be caught. Maybe he was looking for a way out of the Army. Maybe he was simply thinking that no publicity is bad publicity.
I’m beginning to think, though, that maybe he’s just a little crazy. I wonder if a psych evaluation was part of the Army’s investigation?
