Still leaves you safer than the population as a whole does - just check out your knock-on links from the same article:

Incestual, vengence homosexual rape

Baby tossing

Stop knocking up my woman

and of course Orenthal J. Simpson who doesn't even rate a link (or catchy nickname) any longer

Seems like the cross-pollination has gotten almost allergy-worthy, Lurker. Where the original NYT article showed up on my site, now it's a reprint from a frippin' ISP. But yes, you're right. It's only the beginning...of their series on the walking [mentally] wounded. Ah, well, teh Intarwebz have their Diggz.

I'm not actually going to weigh in much on the psych value, here. I'd get too much shit for putting so many words together in one place. I still think it's a Martha Stewart-y good thing that they compiled hundreds of "local news" items to demonstrate a national phenomenon.

Bottom line: If the DoD took care of these guys half as well as it promised, then a lot less of this would be happening. There's inadequate aftercare for PTSD because they train people to survive, not to live. I consider that a shameful way to honor our servicemen's commitment.

MSG Tripps wrote:

More intel.

[M]ilitary health care officials are seeing a spectrum of psychological issues, with an estimated half of the returning National Guard members, 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of marines reporting mental health problems, according to a Pentagon task force.

In the mid-1980s, with so many Vietnam veterans behind bars that Vietnam Veterans of America created chapters in prisons, veterans made up a fifth of the nation’s inmate population.

Seth Strasburg, 29, displays an imposing, biker-style presence. He has a shaved head, bushy chin beard and tattoos scrolled around his thick arms and neck, one of which quotes, in Latin, a Crusades-era dictum: “Kill them all. God will know his own.”

Much as I despise Ira Glass, this was actually a good program.

tojo2000 wrote:

square wrote:

Much as I despise Ira Glass, this was actually a good program.

I don't know who Ira Glass is (I assume he's the announcer-guy on that show?), but I love that show.

Yes. Ira, originally from Baltimore, was irritating when I knew him vaguely in Rhode Island almost 30 years ago... in that inimitable and familiar ego-grating yid way most of us here would immediately recognize. He's also peerless at what he does.

Here is maybe the best radio hour anyone has ever produced:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_E … episode=84

Emmeran wrote:

Lurker wrote:

Anyone of these people could be veterans. The gook is a refugee, so, by default a veteran of a foreign war...

Please have an open mind and resist your prejudice against them for having a military inclination.

Prejudice just doesn't go with your eye-liner

God-damn Emily,  you really are in another world.  You have your head so far up your ass, it's almost amusing.  Except for the fact that you believe what you spew.  Is it really a military inclination to throw children off a bridge?  You are completely full of shit.  Maybe your boyfriend Taint can plumb that shit-plug out of your ass for you.

Emmeran wrote:

Prejudice just doesn't go with your eyeliner

God-damn Emily,  you really are in another world.  You have your head so far up your ass, it's almost amusing.  Except for the fact that you believe what you spew.  Is it really a military inclination to throw children off a bridge?  You are completely full of shit.  Maybe your boyfriend Taint can plumb that shit-plug out of your ass for you.

Sorry Dude - I've been where these guys are - your pot shots at them are at best cowardly and underhanded.

Come back when you know what the fuck you're talking about, or maybe when you've actually done something for someone other than yourself.  We had enough of your type in the seventies - FOAD bitch

I have done more constructive and useful things for others than your pea-brain could imagine.  I can't wait to hear that your "little guy" has shot you in the fucking face.

Careful, Dhal. You're just gonna get Lurker excited...

“God hates the U.S. Marines,” according to a Westboro Baptist announcement of their plans to picket Camp Lejeune, N.C. to protest the death of a pregnant Marine.

Wake it and shake it! Where'd everyone go? It's a cold & slow day in hell when this is news.

Oh come now Sarge. Only a very very select few get to actually deal with terrorists.

The boys in Afghanistan are surely getting the short end of the deals made by men pictured above.

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