Medford woman interrupts George Bush, returns freedom medal

Stacy Bannerman returned a Freedom Medal to President George W. Bush that he had given to her after her now ex-husband who was in the Iraq War. She did this by interrupting a formal ceremony in Philadelphia attended by the former president.

[TheMoringa]

In 2009 Stacy Bannerman’s husband, Lorin, returned from the Iraq war with severe PTSD. His bizarre and violent behaviour eventually destroyed their marriage. Following a journey of personal forgiveness, Stacy started to explore the idea of national healing.

Three-quarters of Americans now consider the Iraq War a mistake; that mistake destroyed everything I loved. I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and began speaking out against it while my husband, Lorin, was still fighting in it. In 2010, he retired after 27 years of service, but the war wasn’t done with him. He developed post-combat trauma, and as his symptoms worsened, I became his caregiver and an advocate for veterans and their families.

When my beloved husband—who actually never came back from war (a familiar stranger came home instead) —strangled me to the point of unconsciousness, and when he started shooting crystal meth, still I tried to love him back to life.

Eventually it became too dangerous and I filed for divorce, put our house up for sale, and in July of 2015, fled the only home I’d ever owned and placed my horse and two goats at an animal sanctuary. I moved into a travel trailer in a mobile home park, where it took everything I had to get out of bed in the morning.

My sense of self was all I had left but then my identity was stolen by a crystal meth drug user who Lorin let move into our house after I moved out. In less than 90 days, I was stripped of my home, marriage, companion animals, health care, social and economic status, and finally my identity, too. When the house sold, Lorin threatened me with an M-4 semi-automatic weapon, and then tried to commit suicide-by-cop.

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