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Old 04-30-2004, 03:49 PM   #21
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Originally posted by warch
That being said, I dont know how all the soldiers arent nutty.
Maybe not all of them, but some of them are. Washington Post every couple of weeks runs pictures of the soldiers who have died, and a brief description of how they died. Too many of the war dead are suicides. I am confident that not one of those suicides would have occurred if these guys weren't living through hell. It can't help that their tours keep getting extended. How many times can you hear that you aren't going home after all, before you lose all hope?

By the way, the Washington Post doesn't list them as suicides, but how else can a soldier die of a gunshot wound to the head while in a chapel on a secure base?
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