I knew friends that came back psychotic after Nam.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Very few, maybe one on my ten fingers that I know are still alive.
I only count my friends on one hand, these days, if you have one.

Perhaps some were acquaintance, but that is not the point. But they got fucked up by their assimilation into the war machine.

Now we are talking about perpetual WAR that is almost as long as Nam, but at a more aware level for the general population was back then, which helps generates these lost souls that will be trained and perpetuated by our government and corporations.

I warned you guys four years ago...... 10 years of war is not healthy for your society nor your economy.

We reep what we sow.... and these days will continue

My rant on the deaths that just happened at the base.
END THE WAR AND YOUR LIFE WILL IMPROVE

[ClayZ]

1. War.... what is it good for?

Absolutely NOTHING!


K and R

[Warpy]

2. We can't afford these adventures in corporate looting

especially since the corporations contribute little or nothing to funding them.

We need to raise taxes on the rich and corporate while cutting military expenditures. This country can no longer afford Empire. We are tapped out.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Sad......... that so few of us recognize it for what it is these days

I buried three of my friends at an early age.

That was enough for some, for a lifetime.

[kentuck]

4. How many times do we have to replay this movie?

Before we can see the plot?

[madokie]

5. War is an admission of failure

A failure in human relations

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. The Planet that sustains us is now in peril

The planet will survive with or without us, but certain life forms are in danger but our story is a different matter,
if we don't get onboard
this 'Space Ship Earth' and quit looking ourselves as just passengers
but in control of the ship that we guide our consciousness with, then the
unnecessary killings and deaths will go on.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. I think it’s very significant that there is no instruction book for successfully operating our ship.

War and its consequences is a dismal, wasteful failure of communication resources and understanding that decades to process.

I'm sadden

[here_is_to_hope]

6. My Father came back and

renounced his citizenship a few years later, he is now a Mexican National, living in Baja.
He never talks about what he has seen.

[Cleita]

7. I think many of them took up weed and other narcotics to take the

edge off. I believe doing drugs may have saved some of them from the fate of your friends although some succumbed to the addiction. Agent Orange took it's toll too. I knew some vets who were dumping it from helicopters who developed psychosis down the line. Our war economy is dooming us and it's too bad the idiots who cheer it on can't see that. Back in the old days the chieftain or king who started a war had to partake in it. Maybe this should be a rule now. If Bush/Cheney wanted wars, then they should have been the first boots on the ground.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Everyone I knew who was sent there came back fucked up.

Everyone!

[SoCalDem]

10. I was once engaged to one of them

scared the hell out of me, so I bailed..but then he stalked me..He always had guns around, and when he got together with his "nam-buddies", most of the rest of us had to leave.. they were completely out of control.. this was in 1968-9...of course he eventually settled down.. last I heard he was an accountant at Ford Motors, somewhere in NorCal:)

when I knew him, he was a different person..no one could tell him "no"..on anything, and he was always ready to lash out at anyone near him.