4th of july ain't about the troops
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OP is probably trolling. Who doesn't love our servicemen?
If people truly gave a **** about "thanking" Vets, this stat wouldn't exist. My issue with the entire thing now is the weirdness of people that love to get on their high horse to tell everyone they know "THANK A VET FOR ALL YOUR FREEDOMS IF NOT FER THEM YOUD BE A SKID MARK IN HITLERS PANTIES BOW DOWN YOU SONS OF BITCHES BOW DOWN"
It goes way beyond thanking a Vet for some people and creeps into patriotic deification. It's weird and I personally don't like it.
But worst of all, it's an empty gesture. 99.9999999999% of the people jerking off Vets all over Facebook for every single holiday don't ever do jack **** to actually help struggling Vets. Otherwise, we wouldn't see the statistic you just posted.
if you get 15 thank yous and 100 thoughts and/or prayers then someone has to build you a tiny house and televise it.
i'm glad to see everyone agrees with me. you should. i'm right.
i'm glad to see everyone agrees with me. you should. i'm right.
The 4th is about telling a govt we arent paying your taxes, listening to your gun laws, obeying your orders and overall telling the British we aren't doing what you say....pretty much celebrating a rejection of everything liberals are for
Your point, child? The men and women who've served this country deserve respect. I will never understand or appreciate another point of view. I'd die for you the same way I would for my brothers in arms despite your stance.
Same to you lol (no offense of course - legitimately) I think most would agree they wouldn't "die" for some dude on a message board .
It would be weird if you did lol
That's a different story. I would die for Frank if I was only going to stay dead a couple of days and come back with super powers.
For what it's worth - the VA released a formal report in 2014 showing that the suicide rate for veterans was at 22 PER DAY
22 veterans killing themselves every DAY that year
Toilets in North Carolina received more organized outrage than those human beings
I believe that OPS TEMPO and some type of realistic limitation on what the "war on terror" is --- has to be addressed very soon
otherwise we'll continue to have GI's engaged in an endless war that promises more shifting angles than an Escher print
PS: The Marines at Camp Fuji used to some into our NCO club at Yokota AB, Japan and act like they'd never seen women before.....it was funny......and sometimes a little unsetting.......Marines are big nasty dogs
You want one around to keep asshats out of the yard
but you probably don't want one on the couch with you
:beer:
22 veterans killing themselves every DAY that year
Toilets in North Carolina received more organized outrage than those human beings
I believe that OPS TEMPO and some type of realistic limitation on what the "war on terror" is --- has to be addressed very soon
otherwise we'll continue to have GI's engaged in an endless war that promises more shifting angles than an Escher print
PS: The Marines at Camp Fuji used to some into our NCO club at Yokota AB, Japan and act like they'd never seen women before.....it was funny......and sometimes a little unsetting.......Marines are big nasty dogs
You want one around to keep asshats out of the yard
but you probably don't want one on the couch with you
:beer:
Damn. I didn't know it was that bad. The veteran suicides that is. I'm of course fully aware of the GD crazy *** toilet situation.
Man.....That report came out ABOUT the time we were seeing additional "bad press" on the VA with patient care and even criminal activities
I've linked the VA report that includes the 22/day #
IIRC that # is across all age ranges
I'd really like to see our CINC find a way to reduce deployments
I know that's easier said than done etc
Afghanistan seems like a good place to start though
I'f like to of some followup on where we are since 2014 --- surely the #'s are down --- they pretty much have to be.
But I don't know that the ops tempo has changed that much since then
I'd assume active duty levels are more or less identical to 2014
So the burden is about the same --
something to look into later this week if there's time
https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/2016suicidedatareport.pdf
I've linked the VA report that includes the 22/day #
IIRC that # is across all age ranges
I'd really like to see our CINC find a way to reduce deployments
I know that's easier said than done etc
Afghanistan seems like a good place to start though
I'f like to of some followup on where we are since 2014 --- surely the #'s are down --- they pretty much have to be.
But I don't know that the ops tempo has changed that much since then
I'd assume active duty levels are more or less identical to 2014
So the burden is about the same --
something to look into later this week if there's time
https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/2016suicidedatareport.pdf
Yep...
Toilets and gay cakes are an outrage to the Framer's original vision.
No doubt
Probably had something to do with them believing that there were more important things about our nation than what people do wth their genitalia in their free time
In this specific case the "other thing" that was being referenced was veterans health (ALL Vets) and the fact that there is an enormous disparity in their health, their care and their families lives
If you make a Facebook post about
Pets/Vets/Fireworks I'm unfriending
you. No warnings. Deal with it.
Pets/Vets/Fireworks I'm unfriending
you. No warnings. Deal with it.
Well, there should be a lot of people flooding Facebook right now with a lot of post just to get you off of there list. I know I would if I had a Facebook account.
We have a democratically selected chief executive and a representative democracy through our legislature, but we are no where near a true democracy. We are a republic.
What most military members and their families go through during their enlistment is more than most of you will ever understand. If being in the military gets you 3 to 5 special days a year, so be it. How many holidays do you think we would actually have if we had a military the size of Guatemalas?
Cracks me up when non military/veterans post crap on the internet. Don't be jealous or upset that you didn't have the balls to enlist. Just be happy there are plenty others that did, and buy them a friggin beer.
Cracks me up when non military/veterans post crap on the internet. Don't be jealous or upset that you didn't have the balls to enlist. Just be happy there are plenty others that did, and buy them a friggin beer.