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I learned my stepsisters and innocent animals suffered terribly, and I feel sorrow about that and some self-blame wishing I could have saved them from him.

I really tried. I told their Mom again and again, you must leave him, he’s not going to change, you must get yourself and your children away from him. But she wasn’t ready to hear what I had to say, and told me I was a bad daughter for saying such things.

No, it’s not that I haven’t forgiven. It’s that I’m still working through a lot of feelings, especially when I learn of atrocities I had not heard of before. It hits me hard when I hear of new stuff.

Neither here nor there, you guys remember the “we had to destroy the village in order to save it?” That was not my father in the news clip saying that, but my father was basically responsible for that happening. As an S-3 in the 9th Inf Div he advised the generals making the decisions and that’s what he recommended and that’s what they ordered.

So my dad was the, “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” guy and maybe that more than anything else tells you all you need to know.