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Trogdor
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lol because they are fighting a battle they will never win , in a region where everybody hates them |
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sapper87
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Ive been in the army for 3 yrs been to Iraq and im happy as ive ever been. Some people just cant handle stresses of war. Soldiers arent super human they still feel stress and some need help coping with it. Also its not just suicide rate in military the suicide rate is up across the whole country. |
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A1C Engle
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Yo chick, think before you speak, unlike your country perhaps, you don't have people on here that lost friends and family to this fricken war that isn't about ourselves alright? That's really offensive, it's not even about winning the war, it's not really even a war and no one ever wins in war, it's the outcome if there is a positive or negative effect and I'm pretty sure I can figure out what your answer would be, cuz you prolly lived a life of pessimism and negativenes huh? That's what a lot of what I see from people out there that have the same views like this and toward America.
Do some research and find the right direction to point your fingers people.
Now, to the question.
Why our soldiers are unhappy, I wont go into any detail about anyone else out there, but will give it to you straight from someone that's away from my family as we speak.
I'll admit, I'm not all that happy. I have a 7 month old son that will be walking and talking before I even see him again if he or I ever meet again. I have a lovely wife that cries every day because she wonders if she'll wake up and see my face ever again, I have family back home, a father that I never saw shed a tear until he saw my step onto that plane headed toward this place.
I'm also unhappy because of what a few people do, people like you hate me and you wish horrible things on me and my fellow soldiers. It's people like you that don't deserve to be happy because you are SICK.
PS: That isn't to the author, that's to the other 90% of the people that are going to say something very anti-American because that's all there ever is. |
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The White Rose
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Soldiers who are mis-used will often fall into disciplinary troubles or get demoralized. This happened in Vietnam, too, especially with the Marines, who were given jobs for which they were not best-suited. Their training was wasted.
Same in Iraq. It is the total mis-use of military force.
We can win every battle and lose the war politically and morally. Happens all the time when an invader is in a place they shouldn't be. |
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Jeff L
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Soldiers in active duty are not unhappy. Check the facts. The suicide rate is rising AFTER they come home, not there. Try using reliable sources, rather than AOL. They have a reputation for telling you only what they want you to know, just like they restrict website browsing with their pitiful dial-up service. |
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SFK
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You'd be unhappy too if you spent 2 out of the last 3 years away from the people you love.
And you cannot compare the unhappiness level with the suicide rates. There are way too many factors to bring into account when you're talking about suicide. |
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jimi
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I'm a Veteran of the Vietnam War and most of us suffer from PTSD. |
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Lightning Larry Luciano
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Wars, especially wars of occupation are stressful, time-consuming, and exhausting (emotionally and physically). This is very sad, but not wholly unusual or out of the ordinary. |
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G-Man
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Gee, I wonder why? The suicide rate always rises when their is a major conflict let alone two. But most soldiers are not unhealthy. I have a uncle and three cousins in the marines and many friends there as well and they love it and want to go back to Iraq. I am going to enlist in the Navy next year. Our military is not unhappy. Find some unbiased opinions. |
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frichalf
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how about you enlist and go to combat, come back and post your answer. that would be much better than relying on AOL to tell you news.
Going to combat can really mess people up, physically and mentally. When you return home from deployments soldiers can be in a mental "shock" to how different it is back home. The single soldiers go from, being around their co-workers 24/7 to being stuck in the barracks when off work, with nothing but booze and food. That leads to deep depression. Although the mental help is there for them, not all come out and get it. |
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Evil Neo-con Nazi
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Because war is hell. It's not the cool action packed adventure the movies make it out to be.
It also doesn't help that when you are over there you beleive you are doing good because you see the Iraqi's and Afghanis daily in the street and villages who are happy to see you and thank you.
Only to come home and listen to the majority of america scream about how you and your brothers and sisters are being nazis and how we love killing civilians, you listen to them say that all your sacrifice and hard work over your deployment was for nothing. It's enough to get inside anyones head. Some just can't handle it as well as others. |
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Mac
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We've been over this subject a million times on here. In all actuality, the military as a whole has had NO significant rise in suicide rates than from BEFORE the war started. Where were people like you about 12 years ago when it was at it's worst? Instead, you anti-war people take fabricated stories and try and use it to your advantage to fight this arguement. And of course, an AOL story is reputable? Come on, liberal hippie douch bag company!! |
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conranger1
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For the ignoramus called LOLA:
What has the Israeli Government got to do with IRAQ or AFGHANISTAN??
Answer: NOTHING!!
you might try doing some research before typing and posting crap here.
As for the rest of the P.T.S.D. victims, and no offence meant here, why was this condition never a major factor in returning WW2 vets?
Is the fact really, that society has become to soft?? or a policy of going to war for a set amount of days, returning home, then going back messing with the soldiers heads, would the pre Vietnam policy of going and staying till the fight is won be a better way?? |
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MP US Army
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Yes it is rising but it was at an all time low a few years ago. |
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allen a
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well perhaps the young that are going into military DO NOT have a solid foundation in God and Country and the meaning of commitment.our public school system has been destroyed by the liberals for over 40+ years of their control.history has been rewritten,values have been weakened or eliminated.the kids today in the military are much weaker and more confused.so what do you expect from our social lib engineering. |
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One Big Awfull Mistake America
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Because of the left libs constantly saying the soldiers are failing in Iraq. constantly fighting to not give the soldiers money for the equipment they need. That and the soldiers that are going to be in for the next few years are upset that their new commander and chief may be the communist Mrs. Bill Clinton. For our sake and theirs I hope not.I'm also 7 year army vet. |
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ajtrud29
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iam in the army right now i already did one tour over there i just got back 11 months ago and iam about to go to Afghanistan for 18 months buy the time i get to come back home my son will be 4 and i really only spent maybe 1 year of his life with him and i know iam not the only soldier in this situation so u tell me why iam unhappy |
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ArmyWifey
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So you beleive everything the media tells you? Could be the current war and lack of support on the home front. |
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Liván
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Because they need love, all human needs love and they are far without his family, poor people. |
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Victor Bout
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This is a true story, 109 suicides is up from the previous year. Statistically, 109, is a very very low number in comparison to the same age and demographic group. Obviously the news media has brought out their ax to grind.
Retired now, but during my career I had two suicide incidents in my unit. One of them occurred a few weeks after returning from Iraq, the other occured pre-OIF.
The common ground between both these incidents were spouses that cheated... |
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-RKO-
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Because they've come to realize that the Bush administration lied to Congress, hoodwinked the American people and conned our valiant troops into believing there was honorable purpose in attacking a sovereign nation that in no way threatened, provoked or attacked the United States. I'd be unhappy, too, if I suddenly recognized I was putting my life in harm's way so that a handful of wealthy elitists, industrialists, oil barons and power brokers could become wealthier and more powerful!!
There is absolutely no rationale behind this unconstitutional, illegal, unjustifiable, immoral 'war'. There never has been from the very beginning. But the media hype, the 'patriotism' themes, and the Bush propagandists
fueled the flames that has resulted in the deaths of 675,000 Iraqis and 3,900 U.S. soldiers. -RKO- 12/13/07 |
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cloaked25
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Our president is a complete moron, the region they're in is desolate, the people there hate them, they're in constant danger, and people at home aren't being supportive enough. |
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Lauren
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Because they are having their tours extended indefinitely and being deployed 4-5 times. They are stretching themselves thin on a vaguely-defined war that many of them don't even agree with. Bear in mind that recruiters are driving around high schools and shopping malls and picking up CHILDREN (18 or not, you are not an adult yet) and sending them off to witness horrors they could never imagine, and they're coming back scarred and irreparably damaged. Then their government forsakes them by cutting off their benefits/health services. |
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Lola
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Because they are stuck in 120 degree heat digging trenches while the israli governement sit in their air conditioned rooms with a thumb up their butt saying "it's too hot to delegate!"
I'd kill myself too. |
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