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Catfish · 06-08-12, 04:46 AM

I read today elsewhere, that the number of suicides in the US miltary has overtaken the numbers killed in combat.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/auslan...-a-837659.html
There's not much to add - the "trauma" (also a nice latin word for being wounded) exists.

- I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

- "War is old men talking and young men dying"

(McCain (?))

06-08-12, 04:46 AM	#54
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,820 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	I read today elsewhere, that the number of suicides in the US miltary has overtaken the numbers killed in combat. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/auslan...-a-837659.html There's not much to add - the "trauma" (also a nice latin word for being wounded) exists. - I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." - "War is old men talking and young men dying" (McCain (?))