This story of three dead in a Washington family after a man killed himself during a police chase is heartbreaking, and filled with a few surprising, unsettling details, like the fact that a six year old was found with a plastic bag over his head and bruises from apparent abuse. This bit about the body of the woman they found is a little spooky too:
Horrible story. You know what isn't necessarily surprising about it though?Troopers also found the body of a 38-year-old woman in the car. The state patrol initially reported the woman appeared to have been emaciated and that she had not been shot. Boston Globe
A Washington state man suspected of shooting and killing his wife and himself during a police chase was a combat medic who had twice deployed to Iraq, the Army said Wednesday. NPR
Who could have guessed that the people we train to murder up motherfuckers real good for nothing end up taking that shit home with them. Besides everyone.
As Newser points out, military suicides like this one have risen sharply in recent years. In 2009 more US soldiers took their own lives than were killed in combat.Obviously it's even worse when they take others with them.
Admiral Mike Mullen's ominous prediction of a continuing rash of military suicides looks to be spot on—though suicides in 2010 didn't surpass combat deaths as they did in 2009, they did significantly jump, from 381 to 434, Congress.org reports. But that combined tally of 434 is also a conservative figure, including only active-duty personnel, and not reservists who kill themselves while awaiting redeployment. When reservists are added in, the toll goes to at least 468—and then passes the year's 462 combat deaths.Why not provide more counseling for these soldiers when they come home, or, and I know this is fucking crazy talk from a delusional liberal, maybe not put them in a position where they're forced to sow death and destruction upon innocent people over some bullshit? No one knows why not, except for the demons that live in the dark recesses of the corroded souls of chicken shit war hawks like this old fucker.
And the figure is actually higher, as members of a 123,000-strong group called the Individual Ready Reserve are excluded from the total. So are veterans who kill themselves after leaving the armed forces—though in many cases the mental and physical suffering they have endured at war is a powerful contributor to their decision to take their own lives.
Plus, going crazy means your a fag.
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