i am going to repost this now Mike
i dedicate this repost to the memory of Michael Heaney, who was my wife's youngest brother.
The town in question is in Carbon County, Pennsylvania
<<By the age of 18 most minds have been molded into that which the government wants, and these people think they are about freedom, truth, justice and the american way (one can replace american with any other country/system that EVER was/is/will be Empire, or seeking Empire)
How many KIDS initially went off to NAM thinking it was for truth justice freedom and the american way? The vast majority of them.
How many by the NAM war's end had the inner "what's it" to realize it was all BS, a meaningless FUBAR war? A great deal, a great deal
For some that recognition is however too dreadful such as my wife's brother that killed himself we think just after 4/30/1975.
He was watching the Fall of Saigon on the TV, my wife was there with him and his/her parents, he was sounding a bitter/sardonic laugh a "BS, it was all just bloody BS, a pack of lies" laugh.
He then said he was going for a walk. His decomposing body was found in an abandoned BoxCar about a week later.He had died by suicide.
He is one of at least 50,000 NAM vets that died by suicide.
He came from Patriot Coal Country in Pennsylvania and he killed himself on Patriot Coal Country, the area of Pennsylvania that kids are raised to run and enlist when one's country calls.
He was i sweet kid, humorous, easy going.
He enlisted and served during what may have been the bloodiest year of the war , 1968.
He was in action constantly for a year.
But beyond that we know nothing, as he would never talk about it ever in detail, just that he was in alot of bloody action.
He returned a shaken haunted young man, hit the bottle hard,spending much time at the local American Legion Hall with other NAM vets.
And then he walked out his parents home, 4/30/1975, never to be seen alive again.
Just another statistic added to the long unending list of "The Pawns in The Game"
And from birth most all are entered into the The Machine's We make Pawns to USE process
i would say at least 80% of what we are taught as children are lies.
"So It Goes", Kurt Vonnegur, jr, wrote that, this great man
that many now greatly miss, that rare person that wrote truth and not lies, and if he was hated for that, his honesty, he did NOT GIVE A DAMN if you did, as he was about HONESTY.
i dedicate this post to the late great Kurt Vonnegut,jr, as great an american of letters as Mark Twain. God Bless You ,Mr.Vonnegut Max90>> |
