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I know for the past 10 years it has been fashionable to say you "support the troops." Now it's time to determine if that was just empty talk or something everybody really meant. I'm a "troop." I have deployed several times this past decade, but my psyche is relatively in tact. I haven't seen the heaviest fighting by a long shot, and I haven't carried the heaviest burden.. by a long shot. Some of my comrades have not been so lucky. They have seen far worse than me. Some of them aren't in good shape.
They need you. They are going to need you for a long time. It's hard not to feel hopeless and futile after participating in this war that seems to have come to naught. Many of them feel empty. Please dont' turn your backs on this generation of veterans. Please make sure they get the mental health care they need. Please don't let them be remembered as "baby killers" or "pawns." Most of them were neither -- just regular Joes who were foolish enough to trust their country. Please don't betray that trust.
I hope I'm not coming off as preachy here. I'm actually tearing up just thinking of the pain that many are carrying and are going to carry for years to come. I don't want my brothers in arms to be forgotten. Please help me remember them and don't let the country turn its back now that they are no longer useful.
If we have a military draft, many of our war mongering people will think twice before sending their own kids to war. We are fighting wars and have been told to not worry and go shopping.
At least on this one thing (wars), Ron Paul is way ahead of both Ds and Rs.
With new automated technology here already or coming soon (satelites, drones, robots, etal.) , we will be able to conduct warfare without sacrificing nearly as many of our soldiers.
But are we willing to do it? Are we willing to "hire" fewer servicemen and women (ie. destroying jobs)? Are we willing to cut our military machine at all? So far seems like a firm NO. Hell, even as we use fewer boots on the ground in combat, we still end up stationing soldiers across the world (say chillin' in Germany).
Bloody sad. If you know a veteran who seems like they need a shoulder, please be that shoulder. People contemplating suicide can often get pulled back from that ledge if they think someone cares.
The services have always had a suicide problem, it was just hidden and many weren't recognized as such. A lot were listed as accidents like "Man Overboard" in the Navy.
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