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DamianTV
12-10-2011, 09:02 AM
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-more-us-soldiers-committed-suicide-than-died-in-combat/

(taken with a grain of salt...)


For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). “If you… know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,” General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, “because we don’t know.” Suicide is a tragic but predictable human reaction to being asked to kill – and watch your friends be killed – for a war based on lies. Perhaps being forced to bag the mangled flesh of fellow soldiers could be another reason why some are committing suicide.

Body Bagging… ever heard the term? Soldiers in the Marine Corps’ Mortuary Affairs unit at Camp Al Taqaddum, Iraq, are given this job… of collecting and cataloging the bodies of dead marines. They sift through the remains of the soldiers, from prom photos to suicide notes and love letters — and put their remains and effects into bags, metal boxes and refrigerators. (clarify please – are you talking about their physical remains/bodies and their effects – ie. photos, etc. or both?) One soldier, Jess Goodell, recounts a marine brought into the unit still breathing. She frantically called to her superiors, to which they simply replied, “wait.” She watched while he died. When she returned to the US, Goodell like many others, was diagnosed with deep depression, substance abuse, PTSD and anxiety.

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asurfaholic
12-10-2011, 09:30 AM
I had a friend who was responsible for bagging his dead friends. Boy, he is scarred for life....

Zippyjuan
12-10-2011, 05:22 PM
For comparison, in the US, the suicide rate for the country as a whole is 11.1 per 100,000 people per year- 17.7 for males. With a population of roughly 300 million that would be 33,000 suicides.

donnay
12-10-2011, 05:32 PM
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-more-us-soldiers-committed-suicide-than-died-in-combat/

(taken with a grain of salt...)

Nevertheless, it is telling regardless. Coming home to a country that is in financial ruins, and dealing with God knows what, physiologically, they had to endure over in the middle east, to make them commit suicide is just as appalling to me as people, spiting on our soldiers returning home from Vietnam!

I am sure they are also catching the news about their fallen brethren being dumped in landfills that didn't make it home. Disgusting!!!

Bring our troops home, NOW!!!