Stirring the Cauldron of Uncertainty with Compassion
A still shot from CNN yesterday featuring CHS grad and former Miss Coronado Lori Volkman
Lori Volkman graduated from Coronado High School in 1989. She, like many military children, calls Coronado home and though she doesn’t live here anymore, returns as often as possible. Lori attended Crown Elementary and is also a former Miss Coronado. She met her husband, CDR Randy Volkman at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church when she was a student at UCSD and he was an aviation student at NASNI. Lori is now a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Washington State. Her blog, www.wittylittlesecret.com, started as an online diary in September 2010 while her husband was deployed to the Middle East.
1989 CHS Graduate, Prosecuting Attorney, Military child, mom and wife and Blogger, Lori Volkman
In one of her latest entries, she writes an open letter to Kari Bales, wife of SSGT Robert Bales, the soldier accused of the sixteen civilian deaths in Afghanistan. She has received a lot of attention for her post, most of it positive.
An Open Letter to Kari Bales, Wife of Soldier Accused of 16 Afghan Deaths
19 Mar 2012 146 Comments
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is now sitting in a holding cell on US soil awaiting a visit from his lawyers after being named as the soldier suspected of shooting 16 Afghan civilians. His name was released Friday, and with it a frenzy of media speculation about his four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, failed or botched PTSD diagnoses, the undue pressures that may have been created by his financial woes and professional difficulties, and allegations that he has had run-ins with the law that reveal a challenge with anger management. Neighbors and fellow soldiers describe him as heroic and exemplary and demand that these allegations, if true, are a complete aberration from the man they know.
And yet in all this flurry and speculation, the only person I can think of is Karilyn Bales, his wife of seven years.
To read the entire letter she wrote, click here.
Kellee Hearther
Online Editorial Intern
eCoronado.com
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