And the insanity continues...
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My wife, of all people, sends me articles from truthout.org about how the war impacts individual soldiers and marines for whatever reason... maybe she enjoys watching me have flashbacks or telling my doctor to increase my meds.
As for supporting our troops, our kitchen table no longer exists because it is filled with packages for marine units in places I never heard of in Iraq and Afghanistan... half our Christmas cards came from officers and platoon leaders thanking us for their care packages, my old biker magazines, and kibble for the guard dogs. Great. We don't mind helping out. That doesn't mean we endorse weapons of mass stupidity... like say, POLITICIANS or there unmoving position on war.
But a story of another suicide or unnecessary death is all it takes to kick in my memories of working in a wartime military combat support hospital. The sound of helicopters, particular the old huey's used by the National Guard still is enough to throw me into a panic attack for days.
So, I hope some frigging Democrat reads this and starts talking about how they are going to keep these kids... thirty years my junior from ending up like me or this young marine in this story link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020208Z.shtml
As for supporting our troops, our kitchen table no longer exists because it is filled with packages for marine units in places I never heard of in Iraq and Afghanistan... half our Christmas cards came from officers and platoon leaders thanking us for their care packages, my old biker magazines, and kibble for the guard dogs. Great. We don't mind helping out. That doesn't mean we endorse weapons of mass stupidity... like say, POLITICIANS or there unmoving position on war.
But a story of another suicide or unnecessary death is all it takes to kick in my memories of working in a wartime military combat support hospital. The sound of helicopters, particular the old huey's used by the National Guard still is enough to throw me into a panic attack for days.
So, I hope some frigging Democrat reads this and starts talking about how they are going to keep these kids... thirty years my junior from ending up like me or this young marine in this story link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020208Z.shtml
