Howard Unruh

I always found how men (and now women) are affected by warfare very interesting. One particular that stands out to me, probably for me because Sheer Terror wrote a song about him is Howard Unruh. To many he is considered the "father of mass murder". Howard had gone on a killing spree, murdering 13 people on September 6, 1945 in Camden, NJ.

"Always a reserved man, he had turned into a recluse in the three months before his spree. The World War II veteran was unemployed and lived with his mother. During the war, he was reportedly a brave tank soldier who kept meticulous notes of every German killed, down to details of the corpse."

Go here to read more about Howard and the events of that day:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
• http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/howard_unruh/index.html
• http://www.users.on.net/~bundy23/wwom/unruh.htm

Editor: "How many have you killed?"
Unruh: "I don't know yet - I haven't counted them, but it looks like a pretty good score."

Here's a short documentary about Howard Unruh:



You can download the Sheer Terror song here (megaupload link).

Mother of Mercy

"Private LaVena Johnson's nose was broken, teeth were loose, one eye was concave and there were abrasions over her body. The supposed M-16 hole to the head was far too small for the revolver-sized exit wound, and was on the wrong side of her skull for a right-handed woman to have pulled the trigger. Her genital area showed evidence of acid, perhaps used to destroy DNA evidence. She had white military gloves glued to her burned hands."

"Three years after her daughter's body had been flown home from Iraq, it was still too painful for Linda Johnson to describe the first moments when she realised her daughter had been raped, shot, burned with acid, then dumped in a contractor's tent and set on fire."
-Tracey Barnett

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10518131&pnum=0

http://www.lavenajohnson.com/2007/03/cover-up-of-soldiers-death.html

http://jezebel.com/5020732/lavena-johnson-murdered-by-her-colleagues-ignored-by-the-army

I don't really know what to say about this besides that it ruined my day.