I am writing this email to those of you who give a damn. To those of you who have read about this case, have read Captain Greenlaws’ emails and took a stand on what you believed in. Not for the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers, rather the scorned, the rejected, – the men hemmed in with the spears.

I never thought that this day would come, but in the end it did. I was as shocked as everyone to hear that not only was the mandate ordering me back into confinement issued today, but that the General formally denied my clemency alongside of it. I can’t really put into words how difficult these last few days have been in knowing that this was a possibility, but I fail completely in describing with any sort of alacrity just how devastating today has been for my family; not only my wife (whose birthday is today, and is 6 weeks pregnant) but also my daughter, my mother, my father, and my brother also.

Friday at noon I go willingly to turn myself over to the Military police and return to the Brig at Camp Pendleton. I am prepared because I am a Man made of what I believe to be both Honor and Integrity. These last 9 months have been a blessing to me. I have come to establish a relationship with my daughter that no General will ever e able to take away from me; a marriage with my wife so strong, that any bars on a prison cell fail in comparison. I know who I am and what I have accomplished despite all I faced getting out of prison and can say that I am damn proud of who I have become and what I have in a family.

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