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.