I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq.
I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives.
I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries.
I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day.
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I just told my younger son, father of all my grandchildren, about being in the Oteen NC VA Hospital Hospice wing with my Dad on the last full day of his life. I told my son, "Everybody ought to have to visit that place, and look around the room at the Veterans, before being allowed to vote."
ReplyDeleteAt Radford Army Ammunition Plant, in the 60s and 70s, we made literally millions of pounds of 60 mm. mortar increments and I never heard of a round going off in the tube and killing troops. The Marines heard of it this week. I take all these things personally. I don't have to, I get to.
"Everybody ought to have to visit that place, and look around the room at the Veterans, before being allowed to vote."
Delete& I think you should be an honorably discharged veteran to run for office.
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The Marines heard of it this week.
Just saw that on the front page of the newspaper at the gas station.
Pathetic. If this had been a WWII veteran what would your opinion of his statement be?
ReplyDeleteDepends on what he said, as obviously it wouldn't be worded the same in that war or any other. Might ask the author.
DeleteHere's some info on the Bush neocons ..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.leadingtowar.com/?gclid=CLOL9I33jLYCFeyPPAodDiAAXA
he caused 9/11, invaded Iraq as part of a deal with Ahmed Chalabi , etc... Invaded Afghanistan to get deeper into the drug biz.. the CIA is the world's largest drug cartel.. that's why we're still there..
Thanks and I'll look at the link.
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