Social menaces

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Meet my step uncle. Dale Alma Duke He was murdered in his own home by Floyd Bennett Thornton Jr.

My step cousin Dale Alma Duke Jr. was the recipient of a large dose of Agent Orange during his time in Vietnam. He passed from this life just a few weeks after his father was murdered.

Floyd Bennett Thornton was shot by his wife Rebecca Lynn Withem Thornton. 

My step aunt Mary Wilda Stuart Duke was the daughter of one of General Pershing's soldiers, Wade Eaton.  Wade Eaton was slow to lay claim to her and her mother married her sister's boyfriend when he stepped forward to rescue her from the wagging tongues of the community.  The marriage did not work and he left the marriage when it became too overwhelming.  When my grandmother became ill Mary's mother would come to help her through her illness. When my grandmother died leaving my grandfather with an overwhelming burden to manage, he asked Mary's mother to join her family to his and help him through the workload.  It wasn't a love match but they did what they could to make it through.

I think your efforts to maintain family ties with your son are valiant and admirable. Forced marriages generally are unworkable for couples who enter into them. It is to your credit that you made all of your payments and kept appropriate contact.

You have so many good traits worth loving you for. If I love you, what does it matter?  I want to do good things for you and be your loved one, but I can accept that you can't accept me.  I can't accept my children's father back either nor the destructive attitude he has toward me and the family.

If I had not separated from him, one or both of us would be dead. That is how bad things had become.
My father forbid me to speak to him ever again.  My ex husband uses his ability to communicate to waste time and resources for everyone he comes in contact with.

These are the Miranda rights read by police officers to people being taken into custody:

• You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions.
• Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.
• You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future.
• If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish.
• If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
• Knowing and understanding your rights as I have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?

My husband used to hold my mouth so I could not offer opinions while he was yelling at me.  I have taken this to mean he considers my opinions of no value and intends to continue doing just as he pleases. I always know anything I say to him, for him, against him or about him will be held against me in a court of law, but he doesn't seem to have the same restrictions and I'm tired of his influence in my life. Why should I spend all of my time thinking up things to do to him? What a waste.

I have been looking at the murder case of Dale Alma Duke and considering the circumstances of each person involved.  I think people are responsible for their actions or reactions to a situation, but I also think our society's inability to compensate for injustice is producing menaces that create more injustice. One example of social menaces is the behavior of Floyd Bennett Thornton Jr. when he murdered my step uncle, Dale Alma Duke and widowed my step aunt. Another example is the creation and use of Agent Orange, the chemical herbicide which killed my step cousin Dale Alma Duke Jr. and left his wife without a husband and his daughter without a father.