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Thread #91830   Message #1749075
Posted By: Barry Finn
28-May-06 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
Wait until these soldiers come home, the way they came home from Viet Nam. Alot will come back destroyed by what they did or saw. Lives ruined with no treatment before release, hardly any treatment follow up treatment. Alot of trained killers with PTS, with no idea of how they're gonna fit back into society. When many of the soldiers came home from Viet Nam they were just shells waiting to die the death that they already suffered. Drunks, junkies, sure many did OK, not fine but just OK. From my own line of site I knew 2 who were alright. The rest, probably somewhere about 25-30 are still a mess & can't fuction properly (including my brother) or died an untimely death like many of my childhood & high school friends. Many ended up on the streets & many ended up in the prisons. We'll be paying this bill for generations to come. So these soldiers that are saying no to what they aready now will become of them good luck to them. I would love the government to GET THEIR MESSAGE. Young people should not be dying so old men can become powerful & rich. Nature's plan has always been the the young bury the old.

Shame on any of you who would push a death upon an another & then call them cowards or stupid for being in a situation that they hardly could imagine. This is NOT WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR!
They are told they'd have a job (when there aren't many), they're told they'd have career, that their traning would be valuable as a civilian (my brother who was a seal is still looking for a job as a killer & an underwater demo expert), that they'd earn a decent wage, 3 squares, a roof over their heads, dry shoes for their feet, glory just sign. They are trained to KILL.
   
Barry