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Now what the hell is this? I hear on the news that the returning veteran suicide rate is AVERAGING 105 a month? 105 a month! What the hell is going on at the V.A.? More American service men have killed theirselves by suicide than have been killed in Iraq? Holy jesus, somebody missed the boat on this one.......

I just can't imagine a reason except one. The survival rate of major, catastrophic wounds is now in the high seventies percentile, I believe. Could some agree with me that some of these men and women are waking up with too much of their body destroyed, and seeking a peace they feel denied? This scares me, because we aren't even feeling the effects of the returnee's from the "Garbage Pit's" of the world, Iraq and Afghanistan. This could be a catastrophic result of a war we were never ready for the first time, and we sure as hell weren't ready for this time

The Arab's have a saying I've heard......."The Desert Takes It All...."

Rommel, as great as his victories were, found out that the desert will eat your men and your equipment in it's own time. It is said to be one of the harshest enviroments in the world as far as bacteria. Maybe we should begin to think of General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Corps in the desert for those years. The desert took them in the end........

We should hope it won't happen to too many of our men and women.....They've been thru enough.......


Some Where In Ded Land........Semper Fi........

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