Vernon Hunter Vietnam War Veteran

Why so little attention to Vernon Hunter?

IRS bomber Joe Stack captured the news for days, but his African-American, Vietnam vet victim has gone unheralded


By Joan Walsh

A portion of the story:
His son, Ken Hunter, told local reporters he was tired of the media paying too much attention to the fractured and incoherent political beliefs espoused by the demented Stack, and not enough attention to his father's life:


"There was just too much going on about what the guy did and what he believed in, and enough's enough. They don't need to talk about him. Talk about my dad. You know, some people are trying to make this guy out to be a hero, a patriot. My dad served two terms in Vietnam. This guy never served at all. My dad wasn't responsible for his tax problems."

Hunter said his father was the kind of guy who'd have tried to help Stack with the tax troubles that supposedly drove Stack to the violence that took Hunter's life.

Googling "Vernon Hunter" on Monday night I was stunned by how little the national media, beyond Bunch, Crooks and Liars, the Associated Press and ABC's "Good Morning America," had paid attention to Stack's victim. "GMA" seemed to write about Hunter because the show featured Stack's daughter from his first marriage, Samantha Bell, calling her father a "hero." To her credit, Bell retracted her statement, and labeled Hunter the hero, when she learned about the man her father killed.



I would have to agree.  It seems that when such tragedy occurs the bad guy(s) gets most of the attention. Quite frankly I'm not interested in this person - his reasons, his hatred for the IRS. I do feel sorry for his family and if the news reports were correct - It was reported that he set fire to the house with his wife and daughter still inside.