I appreciate the response, “unknown.” I took a peek at the site you linked as well. I’ll have to look at it more crefully later, though. From first glance it seems like a good website for wounded vets looking for help. After the latest exposure of Walter Reed’s failures (and the failures of other vet hospitals) to provide adequate care for wounded service men and women returning from Iraq it’s obvious that private support from citizens is certainly needed. Lord knows the Armed Services aren’t going to responsibly or conscientiously care for the wounded or discharged vets in general. Once their service is finished they are discarded like so much trash. It’s despicable. The war as a whole has been despicable.

There was a heartbreaking story today on Ed Gordon’s NPR radio show. It was an interview with the parents of a soldier who committed suicide in either Kuwait or Iraq. It was the serviceman’s second tour of duty in the army. It took the parents over a year to find out what had happened to their son (other than being told he had killed himself). One of the details they discovered from reading the CID report (again, a year later) was that their son had threatened to kill himself at least once before. He had locked himself in a port-a-potty with a gun. After he was talked out of it they took his gun from him. But, and this is horrifying, after talking with his lieutenant for about an hour they gave him his gun back. He was never sent to a psychiatrist, psychologist, doctor, nurse, no one who even remotely might be considered a mental health professional. That’s our unprofessional and irresponsible U.S. Army not supporting the troops. No matter what support I give or don’t give, nothing I will ever do will do more harm to those soldiers than what the Pentagon and the Bush administration is doing to them. It is disgraceful.

Anyway, thanks for the brief response.

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