| Location | Missouri |
| Age | 21 years |
| Cause of Death | Murder |
| Date of Birth | 31/08/1977 |
| Date of Death | 06/07/1999 |
| Visitors | 1,555 since 23/10/2009 |
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Barry Winchell (31 August 1977 – 6 July 1999) was an infantry soldier in the United States Army, whose murder by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, became a point of reference in the ongoing debate about the law known as "Don't ask, don't tell" that enforces the military to discharge service members based on sexual orientation.
A native of Missouri, Winchell enlisted in the Army in 1997 and was transferred in 1998 to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. As a Private First Class, he was assigned to the 2/502nd Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division. While stationed at Fort Campbell, he received a Dear John letter from his high school sweetheart. Winchell later accompanied his roommate, Justin Fisher, and other soldiers for an excursion to the Nashville downtown bars. In 1999, Fisher and others took Winchell to a Nashville club "The Connection", featuring transgender performers, and Winchell met a male-to-female transgendered showgirl named Calpernia Addams. The two dated and Fisher began spreading rumors of the relationship at Ft. Campbell where both were serving. Winchell then became a target of ongoing harassment and it is apparent that his superiors did little to quell the harassment.
The harassment was continuous until the Fourth of July weekend, when Winchell and fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, fought after Winchell accused a boasting Glover of being a fraud. Both were drinking beer throughout the day. Glover was soundly defeated by Winchell, and Fisher harassed Glover about being beaten by Winchell. Fisher and Winchell had their own history of physical altercations as roommates in the barracks of Ft. Campbell. Fisher continued to goad Glover about being beaten by Winchell. Subsequently, Glover took a baseball bat from Fisher's locker and struck Winchell in the head with the baseball bat as he slept on a cot outside near the entry to the room Winchell shared with Fisher in the early hours of 5 July 1999. Winchell died of massive head injuries on 6 July. Glover was later convicted for the murder of Winchell; Fisher was convicted of lesser crimes regarding impeding the subsequent criminal investigation, and both were subsequently incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks. The murder charges against Fisher were dropped and Fisher was sentenced in a plea bargain to 12.5 years, denied clemency in 2003, released to a halfway house in August 2006, and released from all custody in October. Glover is serving a life sentence.
True Soldier
Such a terrible way to die, just because other people didn't like the way he led his life. Its sad to think that people can brutally murder other people because they think they are different.
ღ ღ ღ All My Love Beautiful Angel ღ ღ ღ
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How will heaven be?
As far as I can see
It will have huge bells
And will be situated on clouds
It will have many golden wells
That will so often swell
Rain will be abundant
And the sun will shine all day long
Angels will play on the harp
The sweetest summer song
Music that will touch the heart
While those beneath will shed drops of sorrow
Little will they know what will happen on the morrow
But to them up above
As plain and clear it will be
As far as far as I can see
Yes there will be misty alleys
And lush green meadows
Fresh with the fragrant smell of spring
Winter will never be bitter
Summer never so hot
Autumn never so bare
And resources never so scarce
Food for all will be relished by all.
Grateful we’ll be as grateful can be
Mountains high and strong and brown
Surrounding that hidden land,
Beautiful and vast seas I see
There colour as blue as sapphire can be
And the white waves lashing upon the shore
Sitting on the flattened grey rocks
Who would not call it absolutely heavenly?
However it might actually be,
But can we still not see
There will lie behind this seen
A relieving feeling of bliss
For where not have we been
But is this not by all believed
That after one’s decease
This is the land of eternal peace
Where we all ultimately reach?
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I wish I could have known you because I think you can be a real friend to anyone and everyone. I watched the movie based on this your life in the military and though I've never had to feel the need to hide my sexuality, I have always even as a little kid been upfront to those who felt they needed to know. You were a dream to me. I can't imagine anyone male or female who hasn't dreamed and wished for someone like you to walk into their life and make the earth move. I don't understand the hatred in this world and I don't understand why the innocents are always the ones' to be hurt the worst. You are loved, and because you are, you are still among the living, for as long as someone remembers us and doesn't forget who we were, we still live on as I know you do too.
I live close to the base where this happened and remember hearing about it and it always stayed with me. I dont get how someone could do something so horrific to such a good man...and from what ive heard over the years he was a very good man with alot of people around him that loved him.....My heart goes out to all of you
If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my heart with you,
So don't you ever cry.
The love that's deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You'll feel it from the heavens,
And it will heal the scars.
Proud To Be Gay - by Rosalind Roberts
It is so hard to believe that your life was taken away
Just due to the fact that you were proud to be gay!
What does that matter, you did not hurt anyone
You are still someone’s Brother, still someone‘s Son!
It is a fact of life that others just do not listen,
They think you are wrong, so they set out on a mission.
To destroy a young life that was full of meaning and love
Now you rest with all of our Angel’s, in heaven above
Where you are all equal in eternal God’s love.
It is so sad that you cannot live and be free
This makes no sense at all, to people like me.
All this just for being proud to be gay?
Well I hope that they will rue the day
That they took your life without a thought,
Now they will have their day in that court!
I hope that they will get all they deserve
And gay pride will finally be heard.
There is no shame in just being you
I will end this verse by sending my love too ......
with love for all that have lost there lives just for being gay
copyright© Rosalind Roberts
i have just read your storey and this is very sad they had no right doing this , i hope 1 day they get wot they deserve i hope you rest in peace and sleep tight xxxx
R.I.P Sweet Hero R.I.P
♥*♥~SWEET DREAMS HERO~♥*♥
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Barry
Barry, No one had the right to take you from us and your love. We're working hard to repeal DODT to make sure this kind of thing doesnt happen. Soldiers should be free to love freely when they die for freedom everyday!
The Fallen Soldier
Don't weep for me
O' Land of the free
When it was my time to fall
'Twas for my country's call
'Twas for the land that I loved,
That I gave my all
And for the land that I loved,
I did freely give
And in her freedom
And her courage
I'll continue to live
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