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Showing Original Post only (View all)One of my former students just committed suicide. [View all]
Last edited Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:51 PM - Edit history (1)
I taught him in second grade. He loved nature and bicycling. He was married. He joined the navy. He was about to be deployed for the second time. I can't help but feel he is one more of the American military's most common form of casualty. He will be missed. My heart aches for his family and friends.
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So sorry for everyone's loss, yours, his family, us here at du and me here at home
madokie
Feb 2014
#7
I am so sorry for your loss. Peace to you, and to your student's family and friends.
magical thyme
Feb 2014
#10
All that and it includes none of what the solder is going through his or herself.
DamnYankeeInHouston
Feb 2014
#15
You don't know what caused him to kill himself; assuming doesn't help his family or honor him.
MADem
Feb 2014
#28
Doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things--he's gone, and people left behind are asking
MADem
Feb 2014
#57
I understand that the Navy can be a cake walk compared to the Army.
DamnYankeeInHouston
Feb 2014
#40
This is true, and "hot racking" is pretty much a thing of the past with SMART SHIPS technology.
MADem
Feb 2014
#47
Sad. Serving in the US military is little more than working for Big Oil and the MIC anymore.
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2014
#36