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. There is a pasty whiteness to him that speaks of aimless cruising in aimless towns which once had a brief heyday because of the railroad or a certain kind of crop. The promotion would be another obstacle in the way of everything we have tried to do to honor our son." He promises it will be a good story, a great story, maybe enough for a whole book. He enlisted in the army in April of 1997 and achieved the rank of specialist. Barry Winchell, 21, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat as he slept in his barracks at Fort Campbell. Winchell went up to his room. Finally, Winchell tossed his beer aside and hit Glover quickly several times with the heel of his. Wally, who had served in Korea, seconded the opinion. It is somewhere around 1:30 in the morning in the haze of boredom and beer that defines so much of life in the barracks of Delta Company. [14], Winchell's murder led Secretary of Defense William Cohen to order a review of the "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy, which some asserted was a significant factor in Winchell's harassment and murder. A few months later, Glover was placed in another youth facility, in Ada, where he earned his G.E.D. Fisher liked messing with Winchell, dating back to when they became roommates, in 1998. You wont be kicking anybodys ass now, faggot.. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. October 25 2006 12:00 AM EST The former Army soldier convicted of conspiracy in the murder of Pfc. Rather, the report described a sort of upstairs-downstairs mentality at the base in which instances of harassment were not brought to the attention of those in command who might have stopped them. Since then, 19 of its soldiers have received the Medal of Honor. The conclusion of that investigation, conducted by the Army's inspector general, Lt. Gen. Michael W. Ackerman, and expected to be released on Friday, states that some members of the unit in which the killing took place, a company within the 101st Airborne Division, held anti-gay attitudes. A native of Missouri, Winchell enlisted in the Army in 1997 and was transferred in 1998 to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain have dropped all bans on homosexuality in the military. Once, on the hour-long ride back to Fort Campbell from Nashville, on Interstate 24, Fisher, in one of his drunken states, became enraged when Winchell started smoking in the carWinchells car. Dont take this outside the family.. He and Glover pretty much kept their distance, and Glover considered the matter over. But then something just clicked, particularly when it was clear that he could shoot the bejesus out of the machine gun, finding targets during training in the field that no one else saw. Still, an age exception was approved, and he was allowed to enlist even though he wasnt yet 18. When Fisher saw him walking across the company area the next morning, he made a point of yelling to him from the third-floor balcony near his room. Prosecutors were apparently willing to drop some of the major charges against Fisher because they believed that without his aid it might have been possible to convict Glover only of the lesser offense of unpremeditated murder. During that time frame, Winchell had begun a relationship with Calpernia Addams, a then 28-year-old preoperative transsexual performer at the gay club. (In fact, when another sergeant allegedly called Winchell a little faggot, Kleifgen filed a complaint with the inspector general. Glover hovers over Winchell with the bat in his hands. Tiefland - Kindle edition by Glover, Calvin. Specialist Justin R. Fisher, 26, Private Winchell's roommate, was sentenced to. He could have walked away, but he didn't. According to Smith, Glover told him what he had done while on leavefour and a half grams of a high-quality methamphetamine known as glass, and then an eight ball of 80-percent-pure cocaine. An Army investigation of events surrounding the murder of a gay private by a fellow soldier at a base in Kentucky has exonerated all officers of blame and has concluded that no climate of homophobia existed at the base, Pentagon officials said today. Fisher starts yelling at the paramedics and flipping them the finger. Glover doesnt say much, other than to mumble the word faggot, but Fisher is doing his best to lock him in and get him to think about the previous nights fight. Fisher shares it with a roommate who is sleeping on a cot outside with the company mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. He knew that if he let Glover get up he would just start swinging again. I had nothing against him. The music is just a sweetener at this point, because they are both drunk. In July, he murdered Private First Class Barry Winchell by pounding in his skull with a baseball bat. A day after the sentencing of Calvin Glover, President Clintonresponding to his own wifes public assertion that Dont ask, dont tell was not workingcalled the policy out of whack. He blamed the military for that failure, citing poor implementation. Inside the barracks, the two soldiers do what they often like to do to burn away the downtime faced by soldiers with no enemy to fight: drink beer. Ruiz says he heard Fisher say, over and over, that he was going to kick Winchells ass good, but then he passed out. Rumors circulated through the company that Winchell was gay. Fisher would not allow Winchell to clean up the blood on the wall, because, as Ruiz put it, he wanted it to be a badge of what could happen again. It is Lieutenant Colonel John C. Stratis calling from Fort Campbell, and he has news about her son Barry. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tiefland. Troy Garity portrays Winchell with Lee Pace playing Calpernia Addams. Glover took the bat and went out there and killed Winchell. Other soldiers had strong suspicions that Glover was abusing drugs. It came up during small talk, but Private First Class Josh Jesse says he found the tone of it threatening and unequivocal when Fisher said to him that if he went down for this he was going to take a bunch of other people down with him., At Fishers court-martial on January 8, civilian defense attorney Michael Love describes the night of Winchells killing as a fog, a haze of intoxication. Given Glovers history of making empty threats, Love argues that Fisher never thought anything would happen. He dials a first time, and then a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth. [15][16][17] The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was a prominent critic of how the policy was implemented, and they demanded to know who, in higher ranks, was responsible for the climate on base.[18]. But as Kleifgen later testified, it was basically blown off.). The other person in Room 303, Calvin Neal Glover, is 18 years old and was born on January 30, 1981. She just wishes that he had told her about it, because she would have given him a single piece of advice on how to handle it with regard to the military: Get the hell out., Pat dials the number of the doctor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Winchell was transported. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Prosecutor Captain Gregg Engler said "It's premeditated - murder without a doubt. Amid safety concerns, and anxiety over the fate of a $200 million movie, Dakota Johnson on Family, Sexual AgencyAnd the Psychotic Making of, Paul Newman Says Wife Joanne Woodward Turned Him Into a Sexual Creature in Posthumous Memoir. Specialist Steven Medinger was driving and Winchell was in the front passenger seat. CALVIN GLOVER, Defendant-Appellant. At around two A.M. on July 5, 1999, in the beer-soaked barracks of Delta Company, an exemplary young soldier named Barry Winchell was murderedattacked with a baseball bat while he sleptin the wake of a male malevolent gay-baiting campaign by his roommate, Justin Fisher. [5], When Glover was 13, he moved in with his father. In March 1997, Glover and another kid were stopped by the Sulphur cops on suspicion that they had been huffing gasoline. His favorite movie is Scarface, the brutal Al Pacino picture about drug gangsters. Glover puts one of his gloved hands underneath Winchells head, lifts it up, and drops it back down. Fisher tried to climb over the seat and choke Winchell. Anyone can read what you share. Critics contend that instead of making life easier for gay men and lesbians in the armed services, the policy leaves many to suffer in silence and fear or leave the service. He was heard in this episode in a prison phone interview. Ruiz, his wife, Melanie, and Fisher were in the back. [6] When he was 17, Glover joined the United States Army with his mother's permission. Glover was soundly defeated by Winchell, and Fisher harassed Glover about being beaten by "'a fucking faggot' like Winchell. justice was not served today." 18, Army private, was found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison in Dec. The industry pioneer in UFC, Bellator and all things MMA (aka Ultimate Fighting). As president he almost immediately backed away from that assertion. They see their son in a coma, breathing with the aid of a respirator. It aint over, he said. He went over to the Fort Campbell PX with Bettencourt and Private Michael Casquinoespirito, where he bought a pair of shorts. In 1995, in its first annual report, the S.L.D.N. Last July, Pfc. Calvin N. Glover, 18, was found guilty of premeditated murder Wednesday in the beating death of Pfc. In response to the evidence that Fisher waited at least 10 minutes to even check on Winchell after learning that he had been beaten with a baseball bat, Love acknowledges that Justin Fisher could have done more, but his failure to do more is not an aggravating factor.. Today, Pat thinks she knows why her son left out the details. The same month, Defense Secretary William Cohen sent a letter to Pat and Wally Kutteles stating that I am personally determined to ensure that it is clear throughout the ranks that there is no room for harassment or threats in the military. Training on implementation of the Dont ask, dont tell policy has been significantly stepped up, but Pat Kutteles doubts it will make any lasting difference because of the anti-gay atmosphere that she believes persists in the military. Glover glances down at him. Drinking in the barracks has been curtailed. Kleifgen and Dubielak did some checking and determined that Fisher was talking about his roommate, Barry Winchell. He did his basic training at Fort Benning, in Georgia, and was assigned to the 502nd at Fort Campbell at the end of March 1999. He is nervous, and he is trying as best he can to attend to Winchell; in order to do that, he needs to know what kind of injury Winchell sustained. Add a bio, trivia, and more. He always ran with older groups." The report concluded that General Clark should be not be held responsible. As a Private First Class, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 502nd Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division. After the keg was drained, around 11:30 P.M., Fisher and Glover went to a shoppette. . But Glover wouldnt accept them. I take full responsibilities for my actions, Butler wrote. "[9], However, prosecutors decided to still take Glover to trial for premeditated murder. But the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network discovered numerous cases in which soldiers volunteered their homosexuality on the basis of fear and the awareness that they were in a hostile environment. "He was out of control. A psychologist later said Glover had low self-esteem and was more susceptible to alcohol abuse as a result. Joyce goes upstairs, sees blood coming out of Winchells mouth, hears him choking, then runs back downstairs and calls 911. Timing devices were found in his possession, and there were indications that he was contemplating getting back at someone he didnt like. Barry has been kicked in the head with a boot, he tells her, apparently because information about the incident was still foggy and scarce. But there is nothing casual about himit is almost as if he is making up for the time he lost to dyslexia and the constant fight to overcome the stigma of being labeled learning disabled. Unlike Glover and Fisher, Winchell is an exemplary soldier. His voice cracking, he said "If I had acted as half the man, even half the soldier as Barry was, hed be with us right now. He serves in Delta Company of the Second Battalion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, a sprawling army post which houses close to 23,400 people. He can still mix with the other soldiers, however. Nor did he ever tell Pat what was going on in the barracks. His accent wasnt so theatrical, and he was way funnier than Baz Luhrmann gives him credit for. Barry L. Winchell, 21, in July. [8], Glover pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder for killing Winchell. But according to Alanna Nashwho spent time with the real Colonel in the 90sthere were times when he was just as scary as what you see onscreen. I will fucking kill you. Since the start of Dont ask, dont tell, nearly 5,500 homosexuals have been discharged. He wouldn't stay in school, and he was flunking. At Private Glover's trial in December, soldiers testified that Private Winchell had been taunted for months with name-calling, rumor-mongering and an inquiry into his private life that was supposed to be forbidden under military policy. He starts yelling, Winchell, Winchell, come on, get up!, but he is apparently looking straight at Glover when he says it. I did kill that guy, says Glover, and in the course of conversation he adds something else, according to testimony: The one thing I cant stand is faggots or niggers.. Fisher began to spread rumors of the relationship at Ft. Campbell. Hes often walking around in a haze, with a beer in his hand. The Army, stung by accusations that it was not punishing soldiers who harass gays, opened an investigation into the atmosphere at Fort Campbell. Before Judges Reisner and Hoffman. Criminal convictions are grounds for a bar to enlistment, and Fisher has a criminal record because of the destructive-device incident, but he was granted a waiver. ''There were a lot of times when the problem never surfaced up the chain of command,'' said one Pentagon official. It isnt just the anti-gay harassment that eats away at them, but so many other detailsthe drinking, the inability to call 911, the very fact that two young men with such troubled pasts were allowed to get into the army in the first place. That same week, however, you could walk inside a bathroom stall at Fort Campbell and find a drawing of a baseball bat with the words fag whacker written on it. Winchells head faces the wall, leaving the left side exposed to Glover. Her first marriage had been hell, and there had been those six weeks in Fort Worth when she and Barry and one of his brothers had been forced to live in the car outside the Waffle House where Pat was working. Glover was drunk and telling his usual stories about taking drugs and robbing banks when Winchell finally told him that everyone had heard enough, and that he should take his drunk, cherry ass to bed. The roommates name is Barry Loren Winchell. When the family was living in Tarpon Springs, Florida, he left high school but enrolled at a technical school. Im gonna tell everyone at work next week that you got your ass kicked by a faggot.. Glover tried to get in Winchells face. It was Fisher who initiated the rumor that Winchell was a homosexual. He has a botched tattoo on his right arm which resembles an Aryan cross. According to the soldier, Glover said that it was good to see someone else in the outfit thinking the way he did about niggers and Jews.. In other words, homosexuals can serve as long as they become celibate and deny the very fact that they are homosexual. This reflects great credit upon him, the strike force battalion, the 101st Airborne Division and the United States Army, the citation reads. The mascot, Nasty, is near the cot, which is why Winchell is thereto take care of the dog, since Fisher wont allow him in the room. Fort Campbells 105,068 acres straddle the Tennessee-Kentucky border, and it is the headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division. When soldiers were asked whether any of them wished to file a formal complaint against Winchell, no one wanted to, and under military regulations, investigations into sexual orientation cannot be initiated unless a formal complaint has been filed. Shortly after that, the baseball bat ended up in Glovers hands. 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