The last part of Adam's Letter.........

I am 19. "Just a boy". I am scared. I do not know what I will do. My options are limited, and I am in a predicament.

I feel as though I can pick up the pieces, as they say, and move on with my life when I get out. It will be hard managing wihtout any military support, medical care,mental care,or college assistance. But I consider myself a surivor, and I can make it. My main concern atthis point, sir, is that I don't know when I'll be released. It seems as though it will not be any time soon. At the very least, I am trying to gauge how much time i have left in the military, so I can attempt to plan my life accordingly. Also, so I can attempt to obtain employment, and secure a housing situation. I have no desire of being a homeless Veteran Of Foreign War, living out of a cardboard box.

I am also concerned, because it seems that as time goes by, my mental condition seems to be getting worse, rather than better. I am still not sleeping very well. My emotions are like a roller coaster, and my suicidal thoughts are frequent. Yet, my unit doesn't feel the need to allow me to just move on. It seems as though they want to work me to the bone, get every last bit out of me, and it doesn;t matter whether my health suffers; as long as they get their's.

The Army has shown that they don't want to help me. My unit has complete lack of regard for my health or my welfare, which they have also made abundantly apparent. And it seems as though I am a waste of space to the military, as a mechanic, filling a position that is already underpowered; my slot can not be replaced until I am gone. Because I can not do my job, I am a waste to the tax payers of America. It is not beneficial to myself, my unit, or the Army to keep me in. Yet, nobody wants to do the work to put me out.

I do not know what else I can do, sir. And that is why I write to you today.
It is my upmost desire that you would, if at all possible, intervene in this situation and help me to find some resloution to this issue.


Respectfully,

Adam J. Phillips
SPC, USA
Legal Actions Representative

8734 Marne Road HHC 1-30
Box 416
Fort Benning, GA 31905
(706) 289-9987

adam.j.phillip@us.army.mil
adam@mail2army.com

Adam was found half hung a few days after this letters mailing off. Bruising found in his hands were covered up with gloves during the funeral viewing and also, ironically enough, left off of the autopsy report. His mother, removed his gloves at the family viewing to hold her son's hand one last time...it was then she found the and print bruising on her sons hands....bruising that could only be given to another person while another is holding them down.his parents are still fighting to clear his name and set the truth free.