Beloved War Veteran Commits Suicide

[sabrina 1]

101. The country is rushing into another war. If you know any veterans who have

survived our various wrong headed wars, then you know that the very idea of another war is often more than they can bear.

It creates, as one veteran described to me, a feeling of deep despair, added to the depression they already suffer from and are trying to deal with just to try to find a reason to continue living. This veteran found that reason in his anti-war work. A hope that what he had suffered could be put to some good use, to stop these endless wars which will produce so many more like him and all the others who, yes, commit suicide after they return to a society they are no longer capable of adjusting to.

To dismiss the reality of what it means to all these veterans who came back knowing they had been lied to, of yet another war, is to not understand how frail their survival is and how hearing that we are off to yet more carnage and suffering despite their efforts, can take away their one reason for surviving.

Yes, we DO know of the suicide rate among veterans. But we don't hear about it on the MSM. It isn't a big issue so many Americans do not know about this extra devastating result of these completely unnecessary and tragic and FAILED wars.

To say that the authors don't want to change anything? That is so cynical, when in fact it is clear that they do not want one more veteran's life to go unnoticed or without having some effect which is what he was trying to do as he clung to the one thing that gave him the hope he needed to go on. No More War!