Three Years Later: Who's Afraid of Danny Chen?

"In a pivotal episode several days before Private Chen’s death, Sergeant Holcomb, angry with him, yanked him from his bunk and dragged him across the outpost, soldiers testified. Private Chen’s offense was leaving the shower’s water pump on."   -New York Times, July 31, 2012

My offense was being in the pool at the downtown YMCA five seconds after 9:00 a.m. and then taking a shower. On one occasion, I accidentally left one shower on.  I was yelled at for it.  I'm sure it was just one of the many things the lifeguards held against me.   And it was just one of  the serious offenses that Cynthia Klever made reference to at our meeting on July 9, 2015.





What happened to me at the downtown YMCA was only a fraction of what happened to Danny Chen four years ago.  But I understand, I think, the group behavior that so greatly made his life miserable during his time in the U.S. Army.    I mentioned the group torment he was submitted to in one of my Yelp updates, which apparently did not please the downtown YMCA.


SEE

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/nyregion/army-jury-acquits-sergeant-of-driving-pvt-danny-chen-to-suicide-in-afghanistan.html?_r=0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Danny_Chen

http://nymag.com/news/features/danny-chen-2012-1/