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Financial Challenges Plague Military Families | The Military Wire - seattlepi.com:
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Several media outlets have reported that financial challenges could have contributed to the alleged killing spree performed by Staff Sgt. Bales which resulted in more than 16 deaths, nine of those being children.
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/lembcke-was-sgt-bales-broken-1.3634338
The war-trauma narrative isn't the only one at work among pundits spinning for story-traction on Bales. A failed business in stock trading drove him to enlist after 9/11, according to news reports. His wife, at home with two kids, is said to have put the family home up for sale to avoid bankruptcy. Meanwhile, darker stories about prior charges of assault and mandated anger-management classes have led to headlines like this in the Worcester, Mass., Telegram and Gazette: "Sgt. Bales: Someone profoundly broken?"
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