"Why didn't my school show . . . memorials for . . . the 100+ Ft. Hood

[ensho]

Soldiers that. . . committed suicide this year?"


http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-didnt-my-school-show-memorials-for.html


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I have now been given permission to link you to the 18-year-old's blog site. She goes by the name freckles cassie and, she shows up here too.

Here's a comment she left on one of the blog posts that was well worth quoting:

Why didn’t my school show us the memorials for all if the 100+ Fort Hood soldiers that have committed suicide this year? Or all of the homeless vets who die from lack of VA health care? Or even all of the memorials for all of the soldiers & marines killed in Iraq & Afghanistan?

From the Department of Sad Irony: Freckles Cassie, a teenager who writes blog entries and comments, is already heads and shoulders better at analysis and is more astute than anyone on ClusterFox and most punditiots in general.

Go get 'em, Freckles Cassie.
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did the suicides get a presidential coin?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. So just to be clear...

the "did the suicides get a presidential coin" comment was your own petty anti-Obama addition.

[ensho]

6. I don't consider the suicides 'petty'

nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Oh, I wasn't calling the suicides petty.

But you already knew that.

[Zywiec]

2. Maybe they didn't show it because it isn't 't true

Fort Hood has felt the strain of repeated deployments
Base leads Army posts in number of suicides since Iraq invasion

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This year, 117 active-duty Army soldiers were reported to have committed suicide, with 81 of those cases confirmed -- up from 103 suicides during the same period last year. Ten suicides have been reported at Fort Hood this year; more than 75 of its personnel have committed suicide since 2003. Fort Hood's high number of suicides is also linked to the fact that it is the Army's largest base, with more than 53,000 soldiers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505396.html

[Statistical]

3. Also IIRC despite suicide rate going up for soldiers it is still comparable to general population.

[Common Sense Party]

4. Umm..maybe because there haven't been 100+ suicides at Ft. Hood

this year?

Maybe Freckles Cassie needs to pull her head out of her ass and stop exagerrating a serious issue by blowing it 10 times out of proportion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505396.html

[EFerrari]

5. She didn't. It was reported that way this week in the media. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

8. And if one repeats an outlandish claim without checking the facts

one is perpetuating the lie.

[Zywiec]

9. She has a future at Fox News! n/t

[EFerrari]

10. At her age, she probably doesn't know how horrible our media is yet. n/t