Posts Tagged ‘Dear John’

Ok, I am all for helping military folks not have the burning desire to take their own lives.  Really.  I have a disabled vet for a son, I have another son in the Army now.  But Col. Elspeth Ritchie, a top level headshrinker for the Army thinks the cure is for them all to play with an interactive video to role play suicidal depression?

“Users will not be allowed to end the program until they have navigated to the optimum ending,” a plot summary says.  ”

Riiight.  This brings me to my second problem.  The scenario on the video, the dire thing making the poor guy (and yes, it is a guy—what do women do, I wonder?) blow his brains out isn’t seeing his best buddy blown up, or having accidentally shot a woman he mistakenly thought was an armed fighter, or just exhaustion and despair over losing friends day after day.  Nooooo, the trigger is a letter from home.  A “Dear John” letter.

So, let me get this straight.  It isn’t war driving our men to kill themselves, its unfaithful women back home in America!  Gee, it really is the old “You people stab our guys in the back” argument that the Germans blamed for losing them WWI …and to drive the populace into WWII.  Basic fascism 101, its not war, its the lack of support killing them.

So, what makes the women kill themselves, Elspeth?  Do they have a video, too; with a “realistic” trigger—like having been raped, then accused of lying when they reported it to their commander?  No?  Color me shocked.

Yes, I know “Dear John” letters have an impact, but the numbers of suicides during and after wartime experience canNOT realistically be laid at the feet of wives and girlfriends.  That is a crock of shit.  It further will give battle shocked men AND WOMEN the idea that their WAR RELATED feelings of depression, despair, and self-hatred are WRONG.  It will further alienate them and stop them reaching out for help —your video suggests that if they don’t have a runaway girlfriend taking Jody’s cock, they don’t have a”good” reason to feel bad.

Heckuva job, you stupid, stupid woman; and a pox upon you for the disservice you do to service members AND the spouses and sweethearts back home.   Read all this bullshit at: http://tinyurl.com/36nfok