"Tommy, you know goddamn well you ain't supposed to come around me. That means calling me too! I swear to God.., I'll have your ass under the damn jail house if you call one more fuckin' time."
"Sam, please, I just want to say goodbye to the kids, ,..,just one more time... I'm leaving. I won't be around you or your old man. .....,You tell that bastard I'm going to let him live. ,,,.I want to talk to Sarah and Mickey, that's all, one more time, ..,please baby....,please...I'm begging"...,
"No,...., you son-of-a-bitch, the last time they cried for days after you laid that bullshit on them. They don't know you, they don't know you put a real gun in my mouth...., You fucking bastard, I hate you"...,
"Baby.., Baby., I promise., this is it.., I got nothing left., I'm, I'm, hallow inside. I got nothing left..., I've screwed everything up and I'm so sorry baby, i swear, i am so sorry.., I jus"..,
"No, No, No, Bitch no...no...no, you beat me you bastard, what kind of man does that, ....,,you broke my ribs you bastard, ...,and you think I want you anywhere around my kids..,"
"THEY'RE MINE TOO YOU DAMN WHORE, THEY'RE MINE TOO!"
"You........,, "See, see, I knew your ass couldn't change. Go back and kill people..., ., Go back to that place and kill all the Iraqi people you want, but I can't take it, please, leave me and the kids alone...,, Please..,"
'OK, I promise, I'll calm down...,I promise, please, I just want to say goodbye for the last time please please pleas.,"
"I'm calling the cops,screw you, let them deal with you're crazy ass. I didn't sign on for this shit, you did. I didn't kill no kids, you did. it's your flipping conscience hurtin', not mine. You, You, You.., stay away fro.., Go back to the Veterans Hospital. ....,,,,,,,,,,,You need help, a psychiatrist. You can't just up and leave..,and not take the damn pills. It's you,...., you hear me, youuuu! ....,,,I stayed dammit, even when you beat me, I..,, stayed.., I loved you and you tried to kill me. Nooooo .......,,,,Never again.., you hear me..., never again"!
"Baby, baby.., please, then please, just tell,.them I love them...., I will ...always.., love them.., and you.,....................,..,tell...,my... babies..,I,tried.. I tried so hard, but I can't stop the damn nightmares, God have mercy on my soul.....,BOOOOOM~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tommy?~~~~~Tommy?
What did you ~~~AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAaaaaahh~~~OH MY GOD TOMMY~~~~ YOU BASTARD, NO , what did you do, no ~~~~~~~~~~NOOOOOooNOOOOooooo! OH MY GOD~~~"
"NO, BABY..,, I LOVE YOU~~~~~~~NO~~~~~;;;;;;"
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But it's "Savior of his country." when the guns begin to shoot.
- Rudyard Kipling.
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"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes. - William Broyales, Jr.
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Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by The Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers took their own lives, nearly 20 percent more than in 2006.
At the same time, the number of attempted suicides or self-inflicted injuries in the Army has jumped sixfold since the Iraq war began. Last year, about 2,100 soldiers injured themselves or attempted suicide, compared with about 350 in 2002, according to the U.S. Army Medical Command Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
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“To eradicate domestic violence in the military—and the United States of America—will take a cultural shift that condemns violence as criminal behavior and does not excuse it because of the comportment of the victim, the alcohol or drug abuse of the offender, the stress the offender is under, or even how sorry the offender is afterwards,” says Tucker. She insists that military brass must lead the charge if change is to trickle down from the base commanders to the recruiters trawling the local mall".
Deborah Tucker, who heads the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence in Austin, Texas, and cochaired the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence,
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Lezlie
rated with love
rated with hugs
Trained that they’ll make a difference,
that the Victory will cement the deal
of what they’ve embraced and fought for
and the loser will be at their heels.
It’s what we teach -- defend yourself!
and when your number’s called
you’re taught that your efforts will not be ignored,
and you’ll be hailed when the enemy falls.
My God is better! or My way will reign!
it’s a notion that requires a legion
of followers that think the leader is right
so they succumb to other reason.
Look at the world, look at the Truth,
look at the wars we’ve made.
But not every soldier believed in the task
that he was forced to take.
r.
"It's all in your mind...you'll get over it....take two aspirins and if it doesn't help, welp, buck up, and be a solider!!!!"
There was a story on MSN or one of those sites where 3 cases were profiled, case files lost, pats on the head and told, it'll be okay, come back in 6 months.....eek, not a way to treat our soliders!!!!
Rated!
Thanks for posting this.
It sometimes amazes me why people sign up in the first place when they are just 'dropped' when they 'get out'.
What we seem to need are modern day Hippy equivalents to get it into the thicko Politicians that it's not all profit from the rebuild post war. Hmmm. Well I know what I mean it's just difficult to reply to this post ScanMan.
"FRed(tm) press send Boy and lets go procrastinate our navels over a fine cigar."
About 15 years after the Viet Nam war ended, someone I know showed me an article that claimed that the war, which claimed over 50,000 American lives, had also suffered the loss of more than 60,000 deaths by suicide of veterans of that war in the first 12 years after they came home.
I don't know how you folks down there feel about it but up here in Canada, I'd cheerfully execute any government to the last man/woman in it for the crime of getting my nation involved in the military invasion of a country that had not first attacked us.
Politicians simply will not put a check on their greed and their egos unless they understand that in any such conflict they WILL BE the first to die. Make this the law of the land and you'd never have another war. Ever.
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