The Suicidal Soldier
last year 462 US soldiers died in
the iraq & afghanistan wars---
468
killed themselves.
in 2009, the number of those US
soldiers who committed suicide,
while not as high as last year (381),
still
surpassed those that died in combat &
while the geniuses in the military machine
itch their temples like chimps at a
IT conference or expo,
they have come to the brilliant conclusion that
they cannot find a
“rhyme or reason as to what kind of soldier is
killing themselves”
it seems that as soldiers are pumped with mind-altering drugs
& being forced into combat against their will
(even though they all signed that blessed dotted line) &
as this process continues,
those that feel that they are not living a life even close to what
they signed up for,
end up a statistic along with the other “300,000 who come
back to the US with
PTSD, depression, traumatic brain injury or some combination of those”---
what the government has to offer them when they come back is
more
drugs
(now labeled “pschiatric”), so
how & when will these damaged individuals make their
way back into what we still call
“civilized society?”
when will these brain-wounded of the west live out the remaining days
of their
insanity
having been sacrificed whether they wanted to avenge 9/11 or had they simply been
poor or
brought up in a military family---
regardless of the reason
they walk among the rest of us,
having been something else
having been warped by the military’s attempts to make these
humans more like
machines before machines finally
take over
completely---
maybe the suicidal soldier is just a bit further ahead of the curve
than the rest of us,
because they have seen the truth of the matter
firsthand &
they have decided accordingly to check out now
before it gets inevitably
worse.
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2011
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