Rennie, David
He is ALIVE.
[Network note: Thanks to all Rennie's
"friends" for the consistent reports of his
comeback. It is our hope no vet,
GS Mom or neighbor will believe his fairy tales again.]
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Knowing how you feel at this moment never
doubt those of us who know you Believe and
trust you as always. many have their own opinions regarding
what went down with me but the fact that Mary
and chuck still have never repaid the 400 plus dollars and
THAT IRONICALLY I was attacked at the exaxct
same time they took the money from me seems to
have slipped EVERYONES mind .
After
a decade I still demand my ststus
as a 130% disabled Combat injured nam
vet who has spent 30 plus years in a wheel chair as a
result of my service to our nation AND I'd do it again
man.
Hang tough my friend and be the Big Dog I was overwhelemed
, overran and still pay a price based on lies. You are a man
odf HONOR jerry and
those of us who now you know that.
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Virginia 02/2003
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 02:11:17 PM
Subject: Reb/Also a Life member of Society of the
1st
Reb/Also
a Life member of Society of the 1st
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Just read your post . WELCOME HOME BROTHER
I
too served with the Big Red One 69-71 (
extened tour ) Based out of DiAn (TDY)
to Song-Be .I am a Life member of the
Society of the First Infantry Div : Life
member number 2450 .When the Big Red one
Rotated back to the World I was sent to MACV
and sent back to Song-Be where I stayed
until I was wounded and sent to zama then to
Tripler , Ft Sam and Ft Hood Tx . After my
Discharge I was in the Syracuse New York VA
for some time . Home of Record Elmira NY .
Since 1983 I have lived here in SW Viriginia
.Again My life membership number for the
society Of The First Infantry Div is 2450
. Simply call 1-800 BIG RED1.
Thanks Brother
David Rennie
PS I have heard tales of a car accident lol
never happened . DD21r on file with Society
of The First Inf Div
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STILL
WONDERING WHAT'S TRUE??
Keep
Reading......
this
letter is from a GOLD STAR MOM
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Dear
,
I am sitting here reading this about David who I loved
so very very very much and thinking how he broke my
heart with his make believe death
and lies to me and all of you. I don't know
if I can make myself go thru it again as has taken me
months to get adjusted to this at all. I
loved David so very very very much almost like my own
dead boy and I thought he and I were very close.
I knew he had been on MSN. I wrote to him and got no
reply when I heard that. I heard nothing. I gave him no
money .... I have none to give as I am old and live on
very small retirement income. However I sent him food
packages after he said Bev left him. I sent him flowers
and cards and made numerous phone calls to him and
he phoned me again and again. When he told me he was
having trouble eating with his cancer and knowing
he had no way to get to the store to shop for himself
after Bev left I sent him things I as a nurse thought he
might be able to eat that took little prep and might
give him some strength and be things he could keep down
.
I sent him gifts of CDs of things. He had told me
he loved liked Spanish guitar music, puzzles etc. He
also wanted to see Scotland very badly he told me
as his Dad came from there and he has always hoped one
day to go there he said. When I thought he was dying and
knew he would never get there I ordered two very
expensive videos of Scotland ( $60 for both) and
sent them to him so at least he could see and hear
Scotland. He called me to say how much he loved
the videos . He always thanked me for everything I sent
him effusively. I thought he meant it and was happy to
do it if it gave him pleasure and gave it out of love
and with no thought to money at the time .
David told me he had had a very abusive
mother who had locked him in the basement and beat
him and his Dad had MS and couldn't stop her. David told
me he left home when he was 15 and lived in the street
and at homes of high school friends and such. He
told me when he got blown up by a 500 lb bomb in
Vietnam and lost his legs and got all his other
injuries his mother came to see him at the hospital as
Bev made her come and she stood at the foot of
David's bed and said I can't deal with this and she
turned and left and he never saw her or heard from her
again. He told me he had always wished he had a real Mom
and felt like he had found one in me and was grateful
for that. He told me his brother was a Nam vet and had
died of suicide after the war and that he had two
sisters he never saw or heard from. He told me when Bev
got pregnant with Jaime he wondered at first if it was
his until he saw the baby and then realized it was his.
He told me Bev tried to kill herself one night before
she left him taking an overdose of David's meds
and Dave called me very upset and I offered to go
there if he needed me and he said maybe and
he would call me but I never did go as he told me Bev
came out of it and was coming home. Today
I wonder if any thing he never told me was true or if it
is all a lie or if there are a few elements of truth in
it all. He told me he was a LLRP and a SGT
and at one time he told me the name of his
outfit but now I can't remember it but I do not recall
that it was The Big Red One and I never heard him say
that.
I deleted every bit of everything I had about him
I got so upset when I heard of his fake death. He told
me he never got over his survivor guilt as he was
one in charge the day his men got killed and that
it still drove him nuts. I would never Never share
such things with anyone if I did not feel betrayed as I
do not tell other vets or anyone what some Vet
chooses to discuss with me as I have many Nam Vet friends
that call me Mom and bear their soul to me about
many things often and I feel it is wrong to share that
with anyone. However David has
lied to us and I do not feel I owe him loyalty anymore.
When he was supposedly dying he told me he had a male
nurse there from the VA caring for him thru the day and
at night he was alone. I had no idea if the VA sent
nurses like that to peoples homes but I accepted it face
value. Today I think that to might have been a lie. He
told me it would not be long and that was about a
week before he supposedly before he died. I should
have known something was wrong as I have taken
care of hundreds of dying people as a nurse and their
voice gets weak and sounds wavery. His never did
on the phone not once. I should have known but I trusted
him so much I didn't question it. He told me they had
put in a pic line to give him IV pain med and that
mad him very out of it and that sounded okay to
me. He told me many things thru that period he was
supposedly dying and told me and that he
wouldn't be able to talk much longer so I was not
shocked when I no longer got phone calls or could
get him on the phone and a few days later I got
the letter from Jaime I supposed telling me he had
died in his sleep. No I
think David wrote that letter himself as he
changed his screen name just a week or two before
he died to Lonesome Eagle and some numbers and I
can't remember them now and it may have been one he was
using someplace else all along. In the letter Jaime or
whoever wrote it and said that her Dads Dr was there
with her and that she was going to her grandmothers soon
which I knew lived in upstate NY where I come from to as
David and I both came from there. He had told me before
hand that he was going to be cremated and
there would be no services.
I did not send flowers to him at the time of his
death as I had just sent a large bouquet of them the day
before and Jaime told me he had gotten them and was
aware of them at that time. I didn't feel I needed to
send more when Jaime wasn't even going to be home
and there was no funeral. I did send money to the
DAV for him after he died. I don't regret that money as
they can use it anyhow and I am a regular contributor to
them when I can.
David told me after he died I would get a package of
things he wanted me to have from his lawyer. I
never got any package needless to say as
that was surely a lie as David was not dead I
know now and all that long dying scene he played out
with me on letter and phone was all a lie. Why ?
I have no idea. Why would anyone go thru all that
charade unless they were mentally ill? I have to
believe that David is mentally sick. Perhaps if all he
told me about his sick sad childhood was true and
then if he did truly get wounded so badly in the war and
add that and PTSD to the mix it all warped his mind.
I read once this extensive article on PTSD
and it said Des had discovered that the Vets that
had had the most unstable and /or dysfunctional home
lives prior to their war experience were at the greatest
risk for the worst of severe PTSD after and I
think it is possible to get some pretty sick mental
aberrations out of the combo of both those things Plus
his war injuries or wherever he got his injuries. I
am not even sure they are war injuries anymore.
Perhaps David's need for attention and love,
recognition, caring forced him to seek it in very
sick ways. People often that were abused in childhood
end up unable to known how to give or ask for and
get love and do some pretty sick sad
and odd things to achieve the love they cant
get any other way. I prefer to think this is the
case with David. I don't want him
in my life again as he has hurt and betrayed me so
terribly there are no words to describe the pain I
felt and still feel as thinking of him makes me
sick and sad and very teary even now but I feel
sad for him too as I think he must be very sick. I know
I can't help him. I am not sure if anyone can now
but I am not angry anymore with him.
I just feel sad and my heart aches for this man
who I think is very sick and who truly may
be reaching out for some kind of love or attention
but love he can't understand when he
gets it. I know I am not the only one he has hurt.
As xxxxxxk Widow, my friend said "... the
David as we thought we knew him is dead and who
this man is that has reappeared we will never know"
and she is right - we won't. The David we thought we all
knew apparently does not and never did exist.
When this first happened I wanted to leave the Vet
community forever as I had been used before once by one
of the Vets. However my better judgment took over
as I have wonderful Vet friends I have known over 30
years up close and personal not just on this machine
and I even lived with a Nam Vet once for close to two
years to help him and I am still close to today
and another Paralyzed Vet I loved here that is now dead
and another disabled vet who had no one to help
him that lived with me all last summer while he
underwent chemo and surgery and radiation for his
cancer. I know many Vets I love like my own boy many
ways and trust on this machine as well so I
refuse to let what David had done to me warp my
entire attitude towards the Vets. I just wish I
understood why and all the rest of my life I
will be asking why about David forever. I never
forget him and I still pray for his soul everyday
and ask God to help him .
If he wanted people out of his life why not just say
that and that he was fed up with everything
and leaving AOL and everything and everyone on it
instead of make up this big story of his death and
tell all the other stuff he has. A part of me will
always love him I suppose as I loved the man I thought
he was, not the one he seems to be and I am just
so confused. Do what you want with
this letter. Send it to anyone you like as was
easier for me to say it to you than someone else I
don't know. I have been as honest as I can
and I have no idea what you all plan to do with all this
info you all are getting together but whatever
there is my input. I do not hate David I just
think the whole thing is tragic, pitiful and sick. I
think we must all pity him not hate him and in the doing
of that he would hate that most of all. With
all my heart I wish I knew the truth of so many
things about all this but never will as couldn't
believe David if he told us and I guess no one knows him
personally enough to tell us .......
I feel sorriest for all the VETS that went to
David for help and truly believed in him and got
betrayed too as some of them were not well
and needed help and he has let them down so much
and I pray they are all okay and that his betrayal of
them didn't cause them to do anything
terrible. I am a born again Christian and I never heard
heard David say one thing that would lead me to
believe he was one and yet he seems to have given that
idea to some and I think that too is a lie and to me the
worst lie of all.
When
we use God in whatever way to betray others is the
worst betrayal of all. God will get him for that one big
time if it is true and he is not what he as told people.
Vengeance is mine says the Lord. I
am willing to let him mete that out.
Love
and God Bless
MOM
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