Why Army Suicides Continued to Rise in May, and What We Can Do — Jon Soltz, Huff Po
Just off the top of my head here, stop training people in the ability kill other people?
Thereby creating a massive split in their soul that never heals?
Stop taking them away from their families for extended periods, and repeatedly?
Aw, hell, let’s go balls out here: What is the bloody point of war. Anymore. This isn’t the Forties, der Führer’s dead, ain’t too many foreigners left—they’re all busy updating their status on Facebook.
Silly girl: I believe in Talk. The necessity for Force? Not so much. They’re all somebody’s child.
It’s the so-called grown men who got us into this mess and who keep us there. The suits. The Establishment. Obama seems not to have such a split in his soul that he’s lost sight of human life and death, not with those daughters. Which is not to say he would hesitate to do his job, because he won’t.
Funny, what becomes unacceptable, in time. Someday, when I’m gone, this will all seem so shortsighted, so primitive, like chimps making signs. There will be something better than bashing other chimp tribes as hard as you bloody can.
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One of the most eloquent anti-war, anti-killing pieces I have ever read. Although not written as a poem, your short paragraphs have all the power of a poem, because of their compactness and because there is not a single superfluous word.
Even anti-war messages can be trite, wordy,boring. Yours is anything but. To the point, and then some…
Tom C.
too many split souls out there.
This little gem deserves a larger audience. A MUCH LARGER audience. I am going to forward it widely.
Got to your blog via Annie. We recently had a young soldier suicide in our little beach town — a place he came to because he had fond childhood memories of vacationing here. He came all the way from Colorado, knowing he was about to go on a third tour, went to the ocean’s edge, called 911 to notify them to pick up a suicide in a parked car, “…before the children could find him.” He took his life, because he could not stand the anger and the sadness and his desire to hurt others…he’d rather end his life than possibly end the life of others in the future. Simply gut wrenching.
Powerful post. I think the video game training is part of the problem with PTSD.
http://www.psychiatrymmc.com/november-2007-letters-to-the-editor/
Now they are treating with virtual reality.
http://www.moaa.org/momStory.aspx?pagename=pubs_mom_070601_ptsd
The ‘War on Terror’ is a war on the mind’s grasp on reality. I live in a military town, too, and a retired Naval officer killed himself in despair over the Bush administration’s policies in 2006. He was found cut to death in the woods. We were afraid a monster was at large – and one is – War, Inc.
Sources on the Internet about his peace and social justice activism have been removed, including a friend’s editorial in the local paper, and materials on a Democratic party web site.
All symptoms of a racket war.
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
Like religion, another form of manipulation by those who can’t seem to sift through common sense and reason ; (
Nicely done!
Thank you, everyone. Very much.
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