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Hey there, folks. It is Monday, September 29th.

And it appears there was a tragedy before the tragedy.

We saw this weekend in North Carolina, a mass shooting that left several people dead.

But now we're learning more about the shooter.

And it sounds as if a lot of people might have failed this guy.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

I don't know if that's going too far this early, uh, robs in saying that, but a story is

developing of a guy who needed help and a lot of people knew needed help. And now here we are.

Look, we don't normally, and for very serious and specific reasons, don't talk much about the gunmen

or the shooters when you have mass tragedies because on principle

you don't want to elevate or somehow make this terrible act, the person who committed it,

elevate it to a way where somehow a copycat would want that kind of attention or feel

like they've gained some sort of notoriety. But in this specific case, we are talking about a highly decorated Marine who gave truly his life,

nearly his life, for his country.

When you actually hear what happened to him while he was fighting for our country in Operation Iraqi Freedom, you will be amazed at what this young man endured, what he came through.

And then the disabilities that he was left with were not, we didn't take care of our own.

We did not protect this young man from himself.

When he incurred life-threatening catastrophic injuries in war, we didn't make sure he was okay when he got back. And that is so sad. And that's why this story is it, yeah, like you said, a tragedy compounding another tragedy.

Yeah, it's it's bizarre oftentimes that a picture starts to develop this quickly right after a shooting like this. And it is bizarre, because now included in this bizarre story is him side by side on a red carpet

with a country music star.

Yeah.

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