PFC Christensen went AWOL before we left FT. Stewart, and was constantly crying to get out of going to Iraq.

Once we got to Iraq he tried to run off our camp out into the Kuwaiti desert. He had to be tackled to be prevented from going over the berm and disappearing into the desert.

Once in Baghdad he was given the easiest and safest job that we could find. He was to run the website for the radio station we operated. This was to be a secret and yet he told his uncle about it through emails. He could not live up to his duty and obligation to protect something that was known to only a few; that the Americans sponsored an Iraqi language radio station. He did not have to leave camp in order to do his job like all the other Soldiers in his section did. Once Soldier’s started rotating back to the states for their R & R he was going to have to go off camp. He freaked out when he found out and started going to sick call so that he could get quarters by saying that he had diarrhea.

He would do anything that he could do in order to not have to do what most Soldiers did every day; leave camp on patrol.

PFC Christensen was a coward in the worst way and does not deserve to have a memorial in an area where guys like SSG Brooks and SPC Carrillo (others Soldiers of mine who were killed doing their jobs) are recognized.

It is the wrong decision to make a family happy; who obviously does not know the truth about their son, and degrade what the memorial at Fort Stewart stands for.