who once spoke out against the killing of civilians in a war zone. sergeant bales identity had been withheld for six days because of the pentagon s concerns about his security and that of his family. athena jones is live for us out of washington. what more do we know about bales, his state of mind before his recent deployment to afghanistan? reporter: certainly as you mentioned he s 38 years old. he s the father of two young children. he had deployed to iraq three times, was on his fourth deployment to afghanistan when this shooting rampage that he s accused of occur. if you talk to his lawyer and we ve heard from his family, his neighbors and friends, they all say that he s a family man, a love husband and they are shocked by hearing this news that he s accused of this. let s listen to what his friend and his neighbor had to say. he had such a big heart too because he was in the financial world as a financial adviser. he couldn t even take that, like losing people s mon