yet another reason to BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!! [View All]

today's news carries the story of a man in florida who beheaded his wife and stabbed his son to death. according to the reports, he is a disabled veteran. the reason I point this out is to reiterate yet one more extremely cogent reason for bringing our troops home NOW, one which is barely mentioned (and yes, this is from a previous post here on DU, in response to someone suggesting that we send in still MORE troops:


quite apart from the devastation the various governments of the US(legally elected or otherwise) have caused, I will give one very cogent reason for not only NOT sending in more troops, but for bringing them home immediately, one that hasn't even been mentioned here. I am sick to death, and sick at heart, at having to deal with the devastation of our service members and their families--the ones coming back with PTSD and/or horrific injuries, the ones coming back with dead souls, the ones whose exposure to DU is going to cause them (and their offspring) lifetimes of misery-- the ones who are going to kill themselves, or their families, or complete strangers when they finally crack. the families of the ones who didn't come back, and who won't be coming back, thanks to the sort of thinking being espoused. YOU aren't the one dealing with these people, I AM--and thousands like me, and quite frankly, after 30 years, I am TIRED. I don't want to HAVE to do this anymore, but I will keep on, because we have to.

so those who comfortably sit there and suggest that my, and others' jobs, get even harder, I find this absolutely appalling. I suugest, for whoever does this--that you spend time volunteering at a VA hospital, and see exactly what it is that you are proposing. One of us will probably end up seeing you then.

it makes me heartsick to see that this is going to happen more and more--there are going to be so many more dead and broken bodies, hearts and souls and families, and less and less help for them, courtesy of those wonderful chickenhawk "support the troop" hypocrites.