Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich is obviously feeling put upon by all this attention being paid to how one of his soldiers died a couple years ago. The family just keeps asking questions, asking questions, asking questions, and now it has taken on a life of its own, with fine upstanding officers being confronted by civilians demanding answers. Rank being the grand potato masher on the inside, it takes some getting used to, all this ate-up weakness being celebrated out here like it matters, with a nonstop peddling of grievances that could make a soldier feel like one of them desk jockeys answering questions on the phone all day about why their lights won’t go on anymore.
It’s because you didn’t pay your bill! And neither did this soldier or his family, and if you want to know why they’re embarrassing themselves out in front of the cameras day after day, Lt. Col. Kauzlarich can easily take a step out of the uniform…”in spirit” of course, since the job is one that frowns upon what he’s about to say…though considering who we’ve got in the White House, it isn’t something he has to worry about. So here it goes:
“When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don’t believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more — that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don’t know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough.” -Are the Tillmans’ religious beliefs a factor in the ongoing investigation?- “I think so. There is not a whole lot of trust in the system or faith in the system [by the Tillmans]. So that is my personal opinion, knowing what I know.”
Nice, huh? Kind of sums it all up…this unwillingness to simply shut up and go away when you’re told…it’s a testament to the general level of dysfunction known to run the brain of your average civilian heathen into the ground, most often taking as many innocent Christian soldiers down with them as they can. See, the man volunteered to serve his country, and what his country needed him to do was die, be celebrated, disappear. The Army realized he’d be more useful to recruit with dead than in a wheelchair babbling about how the war wasn’t legal…and convincing people to join wasn’t easy, so they decided to…eh…whatever, it’s not important. What’s important is that everyone understand that this is a real bummer for Lt. Col. Kauzlarich, his family and the other officers who were told to say or do something, and ever since then have been worried about a negative bullet point on their Officer Evaluation Report if they don’t keep saying it like the bosses want.
So he’s trying to help the Tillman’s out here, and in faith he figures the one thing they’d benefit most from would be to hear about what makes him feel better when his son dies
in a war. To look up that chain of command and know in his heart that whatever happened is none of his business, and that his Officer Evaluation Report hung in the balance if he got to asking questions like a jerk, so he doesn’t. He has FAITH! The Tillmans don’t have an Officer Evaluation Report of their own, neither do they have a promotion to strive towards. And it’s so sad to think that once this entire charade is all over, they’ll have nothing to look forward to…whereas Lt. Col. Kauzlarich has another Officer Evaluation Report to look forward to next year and the year after that and so on…
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