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RUSSELL STRAND:
I think that the men that we attract in the military, you know we’ve got the army of
one you know be all you can be, all those things we’ve had for so many years are
very very heavily masculine. Masculinity cannot be victimized, because if you’re a
leader, if you’re a masculine person, and you’re victimized, then you’re weak. The
problem is anybody can be a victim of sexual assault.
[00:35:46]
MICHAEL MATTHEWS:
I joined the service in 1972. The military is a great way of life, I got to see the world,
I got educated. I loved the military. I was 19 and I went to the chow hall alone, and
the next things I know I was laying on the ground, and I was struck from behind, and
two guys were holding me down, and one guy was pulling my pants down. And, you
know, he was taking care of his business. And you know I struggled, and I was being
struck and hit and told to shut up or they’d kill me. And I see how it destroyed my
life. I mean, I’ve been married three times. Luckily I have a wife right now who I’ve
been married to for 25 years.
[00:36:42]
JERI LYNN MATTHEWS:
You start wondering and you start sort of, you know either coming up with reasons
why things are the way they are. And for a long time, I kept thinking, I don’t know,
there’s something else.
MICHAEL MATTHEWS:
I never told anybody in over thirty years. I decided to tell my wife. It was the scariest
moment of my life. I was going to tell my wife, she was going to leave me, and I
would be lost with out her. I mean, honest to god I couldn’t get up every morning
without my wife, you know. And I told her.
JERI LYNN MATTHEWS:
I felt horrified, and I felt sad and I felt angry, along the course of the evening, feelings
just started to surface that were probably just simmering for a very very long time.
MICHAEL MATTHEWS:
And she put her arms around me, and we both sat there and sobbed. It was like this
great weight had been lifted off of me.
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BRIGADIER GENERAL LOREE SUTTON:
I think it’s important to recognize that military sexual trauma is not limited to
women, and in fact when it comes to the absolute numbers because of the