Ever since Clinton sat in the Oval Office, there has been a policy in place to not send letters of condolences to the survivors of military members who die by suicide. I am personally repulsed by this policy. And I don’t understand it at all; my father was a Korean veteran and he killed himself for completely non-service related issues in the year 2000. His widow still received a White House letter of sympathy and thanks for his service. So, why do current members who have suffered deployment after deployment and give in to the urge to end it all get the additional stigmata of being denied a letter?

Families of suiciding service members are asking the same question. It is about time….because most of those folks would still be alive if it were not for the wars. By my definition, that makes them war-related deaths. Pick up your pen, Mr. Obama. Especially as you prepare to send 30,000 more into the valley of death and destruction that is Afghanistan.

And if any of the folks who read the military news want to venture in to comment that such suicides are only “thinning the herd” of “the weak”? Well, I wish you luck, you self-important, likely REMF-asshat. Prepare to be pummeled.