Comments on: Suicidal troops http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grumpy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417224 Grumpy Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:55:42 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417224 Hi Everybody, I remember earlier this year, Lex wrote a posting on this subject. On 2 Jan 2007, Lex wrote a post about a tragic event, "I hate these kinds of Stories". This was the story of the death of Cpl. James Dean in Maryland. Almost 40 years ago, When I was at Lackland AFB, I had a major brain infection. I would go to the clinic and they would tell me it was a head cold. I knew this was wrong, I was in severe pain in my head, ears and neck. I was in pain 24/7. Then, one night the pain increased exponentially and finally my eardrums ruptured, it also blew out the 2 small bones of the inner ear, according to records. While I was "healing", I was sent to a med hold, while there, I had friends there and they wound up hanging themselves. These men were not recruits. The line in their logic was this, "Our leaders are absolutely clueless, they have never been there! We are just tired, tired, oh so tired." After two of us found them the next morning dead, we agreed to fight suicide in any way we could. Go back and read that posting, you'll do yourself a favor on 2 Jan 2007, "I hate these kinds of Stories". What are we going to do with these, "canary in the mine" type events? Lex, I just want to thank you for the many ways you serve this Great Nation. Grumpy Hi Everybody, I remember earlier this year, Lex wrote a posting on this subject. On 2 Jan 2007, Lex wrote a post about a tragic event, “I hate these kinds of Stories”. This was the story of the death of Cpl. James Dean in Maryland. Almost 40 years ago, When I was at Lackland AFB, I had a major brain infection. I would go to the clinic and they would tell me it was a head cold. I knew this was wrong, I was in severe pain in my head, ears and neck. I was in pain 24/7. Then, one night the pain increased exponentially and finally my eardrums ruptured, it also blew out the 2 small bones of the inner ear, according to records. While I was “healing”, I was sent to a med hold, while there, I had friends there and they wound up hanging themselves. These men were not recruits. The line in their logic was this, “Our leaders are absolutely clueless, they have never been there! We are just tired, tired, oh so tired.” After two of us found them the next morning dead, we agreed to fight suicide in any way we could. Go back and read that posting, you’ll do yourself a favor on 2 Jan 2007, “I hate these kinds of Stories”. What are we going to do with these, “canary in the mine” type events?

Lex, I just want to thank you for the many ways you serve this Great Nation.

Grumpy

]]> By: Sean Meade http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417219 Sean Meade Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:58:43 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417219 thanks for the link and putting us on your blogroll, Lex. thanks for the link and putting us on your blogroll, Lex.

]]> By: doorkeeper http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417218 doorkeeper Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:00:53 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417218 And I am sure there's no mention of the constant, grinding pressure provided by our media to believe that they are evil, wicked, baby-raping demons...... that couldn't have anything to do with it. d And I am sure there’s no mention of the constant, grinding pressure provided by our media to believe that they are evil, wicked, baby-raping demons……
that couldn’t have anything to do with it.
d

]]> By: AW1 Tim http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417223 AW1 Tim Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:28:32 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417223 Lex, It would be nice if perchance they would list the source of thier numbers. Always handy to be able to see the data from which such numbers are drawn. Perhaps I'll be called out on these commets as I was on others. No matter. Still and all, what is the big hue and cry regarding suicide? Haven't generation after generation been told it's better to burn out than to rust? Do not ad agency after ad agency cater to the 20-35 year old demographic? Are we not told that we need to measure up to the hip, cool lifestyle? It's always better to be youthful, with 6-pack abs and a BMW and all that that entails? Only partially in jest to I note that perhaps it seems better to check out than to deal with the examples of our elected officials in Congress assembled? Would it not be better to honorably serve the nation and than leave it then to live under the spiteful glare of our mass media and annointed aristocracy, those who inhabit the ivory towers of learning, who always know what is best for thee and me, but never for themselves? Trust me, shipmates, I fully understand the drive to say FU to those in the media, on campus, and in government, and check out early. Why should I spend the rest of my life being seen by my elected officials as a meat-based ATM for their social-justice wet dreams? There are truly times when I despair of this great nation ever amounting to anything more than a pile of hubris-infused vomit. But then, I see the face of my youngest daughter, and realise that I need to provide for her. That I need to instill in her the desire to be better than what her teachers have planned for her, to be above what those craven sycophantic raving hordes of narcissitic zombie leftists subscribe to. In short, to be the citizen the founding fathers wanted her to be, and I am brought back to earth. To reality. I owe it to her to be the best father that I can be, to be the best teacher she will ever have. To be the standard by which other men will be judged. Yet, I understand why my shipmates might check out early. I cannot blame them. I will not pity them. It is their life, their choice to make. How can a society that supports the right of abortion decry suicide? Ah well. I need a drink. May God Bless all my shipmates, and hold them close. They have earned that right, every man jack of them. Respects, Lex,

It would be nice if perchance they would list the source of thier numbers. Always handy to be able to see the data from which such numbers are drawn.

Perhaps I’ll be called out on these commets as I was on others. No matter. Still and all, what is the big hue and cry regarding suicide? Haven’t generation after generation been told it’s better to burn out than to rust?

Do not ad agency after ad agency cater to the 20-35 year old demographic? Are we not told that we need to measure up to the hip, cool lifestyle? It’s always better to be youthful, with 6-pack abs and a BMW and all that that entails?

Only partially in jest to I note that perhaps it seems better to check out than to deal with the examples of our elected officials in Congress assembled? Would it not be better to honorably serve the nation and than leave it then to live under the spiteful glare of our mass media and annointed aristocracy, those who inhabit the ivory towers of learning, who always know what is best for thee and me, but never for themselves?

Trust me, shipmates, I fully understand the drive to say FU to those in the media, on campus, and in government, and check out early. Why should I spend the rest of my life being seen by my elected officials as a meat-based ATM for their social-justice wet dreams?

There are truly times when I despair of this great nation ever amounting to anything more than a pile of hubris-infused vomit.

But then, I see the face of my youngest daughter, and realise that I need to provide for her. That I need to instill in her the desire to be better than what her teachers have planned for her, to be above what those craven sycophantic raving hordes of narcissitic zombie leftists subscribe to. In short, to be the citizen the founding fathers wanted her to be, and I am brought back to earth. To reality.

I owe it to her to be the best father that I can be, to be the best teacher she will ever have. To be the standard by which other men will be judged.

Yet, I understand why my shipmates might check out early. I cannot blame them. I will not pity them. It is their life, their choice to make. How can a society that supports the right of abortion decry suicide?

Ah well. I need a drink.

May God Bless all my shipmates, and hold them close. They have earned that right, every man jack of them.

Respects,

]]> By: P-3W http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417222 P-3W Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:09:22 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417222 Lies, damned lies, and statistics! Lies, damned lies, and statistics!

]]> By: Kristen http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-417221 Kristen Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:58:38 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/11/14/suicidal-troops/#comment-417221 Ghouls. Ghouls.

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