they're making a solider who has bi-polar disorder (most everyone agrees on that) and abuses alcohol and who attempted suicide and who already did a tour in kuwait deploy AGAIN to the middle east. let's just say you're king george or a member of his court and you don't give a flying yoo hoo about this young man. let's just say that. WELL WHAT ABOUT THE FACT A SUICIDAL, DEPRESSED, ALCOHOLIC IS GIVEN A GUN AND MADE TO 'DEFEND YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY AGAINST THE WAR ON TERROR'! you don't have a problem with THAT? (note: i am more concerned about the young man of course. i'm just making a point here)
Soldier, After Bipolar Treatment and Suicide Attempts, Sent Back to War Zone
FORT CARSON A Fort Carson soldier who says he was in treatment at Cedar Springs Hospital for bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse was released early and ordered to deploy to the Middle East with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team.The 28-year-old specialist spent 31 days in Kuwait and was returned to Fort Carson on Dec. 31 after health care professionals in Kuwait concurred that his symptoms met criteria for bipolar disorder and “some paranoia and possible homicidal tendencies,” according to e-mails obtained by a Denver newspaper.The soldier, who asked not to be identified because of the stigma surrounding mental illness and because he will seek employment when he leaves the Army, said he checked himself into Cedar Springs on Nov. 9 or Nov. 10 after he attempted suicide while under the influence of alcohol. He said his treatment was supposed to end Dec. 10, but his commanding officers showed up at the hospital Nov. 29 and ordered him to leave.“I was pulled out to deploy,” said the soldier, who has three years in the Army and has served a tour in Iraq........
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oh hell.
unbelievable.
I take that back. Believable.
Song Lyrics for you from Jason Isbell. Dress Blues.
Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
Nobody showed up to protest,
just sniffle and stare.
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
and there's silent old men from the corps.
What did they say when they shipped you away
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
Nobody here could forget you.
You showed us what we had to lose.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.
- - the whole song's powerful. well worth the click and read.
- rick
thanks rick for the link. i checked him out-i'd not heard of him before. he's actually coming to toad's place next monday (new haven). of course i always think of the pogues and their version of 'and the band played waltzing matilda'.
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