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To: i-node who wrote (594315)	11/26/2010 1:34:57 PM
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Among 'Civilian Soldiers,' Suicide Rate Explodes 86 NON-ACTIVE-DUTY NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS HAVE KILLED THEMSELVES THIS YEAR By Kate Schwartz, Newser Staff Posted Nov 26, 2010 9:52 AM CST (NEWSER) – In the first 10 months of 2010, 86 National Guard soldiers who were not on active duty took their own lives—a sad figure made even more depressing by the fact that it's nearly double the figure for all of 2009. Last year, 48 non-active-duty Guard soldiers killed themselves, and the reason for the jump in suicides among these "citizen soldiers" remains unclear, reports USA Today. The deputy commander of an Army task force focused on reducing suicides say investigations into their death have revealed factors ranging from home foreclosures to relationship problems to combat stress. He notes that soldiers on active duty have easier access to mental health resources, which may be having a positive effect: Among active-duty Army soldiers and National Guard members, there have been 132 suicides for the year through October, compared to 140 in the same period last year.

To: i-node who wrote (594315)	11/26/2010 1:36:01 PM
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College Bans Vet for 'Addicted to Killing' Essay EX-SOLDIER: ESSAY WAS 'THERAPEUTIC' By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Nov 26, 2010 2:39 AM CST (NEWSER) – An Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who wrote that he was "addicted to killing" in an essay about his war experiences was banned from campus after his essay was published in his college newspaper. The Community College of Baltimore County told Charles Whittington that his writings "raised red flags," especially in light of the Virginia Tech shootings. "I was really frustrated, because they didn't give me a chance to explain," Whittington tells ABC News. "I wrote the paper to talk about the reality of what other soldiers go through and it was therapeutic for me." "I got used to killing and after a while it became something I really had to do," he wrote in the essay, which got an A. "Killing becomes a drug, and it is really addictive." Experts say such feelings aren't uncommon in combat vets, although the college stresses that veterans were among those who complained about the essay. Whittington, who has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, says he has gone for a psychological evaluation to prove that he is no threat to his fellow students. Click here to read his full essay. newser.com

To: i-node who wrote (594315)	11/26/2010 1:54:27 PM
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Judge: Let lesbians into military so male GIs can turn them straight By Daniel Tencer rawstory.com Thursday, November 25th, 2010 -- 6:09 pm Did judge suggest corrective rape for lesbian soldiers? The conservative news site The Daily Caller has removed part of an article that suggested lesbians be allowed into the US military so that their male colleagues can "convert" them. Critics say the article went as far as to suggest corrective rape for lesbians. "Lesbians should be allowed to serve, gay men should not," declared Joe Rehyansky in an article published Monday. Rehyansky, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam, is a part-time magistrate in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and a former assistant district attorney. In the original article, Rehyansky concluded that his lesbians-only policy "would get the distaff part of our homosexual population off our collective ‘Broke Back,’ thus giving straight male GIs a fair shot at converting lesbians and bringing them into the mainstream." That alarmed some LGBT activists, who note that much of the article before that comment argued that men are rapists by nature. Rehyansky's argument that gay men should continue to be banned from the military was based on this notion: [S]houldn’t the overwhelmingly straight warriors who answer their county’s call be spared the indignity of showering with other men who achieve lascivious enjoyment from the sight of those lithe naked bodies, and who may be tempted to seek more than the view? They are, after all, guys. In the early evolutionary years of the human species, Rehyansky argued, "It fell to men to swing through the trees and scour the caves in search of as many women as possible to subdue and impregnate — a tough job but someone had to do it." Writing at TBD.com, Amanda Hess reads between the lines of Rehyansky's article: "Once all the lesbians are easily accessible in one place, an army of straight dudes will turn them all straight, presumably through that time-tested tactic of subduing and impregnating women against their will." Hess reports that The Daily Caller briefly dropped the article when it began to gain attention, only to put it back online but without the "converting lesbians" comment. The comment has since been republished at other Web sites. According to his LinkedIn profile, Rehyansky's specialties are "sending criminals to prison" and "astute political analysis." The Daily Caller was launched earlier this year by Tucker Carlson, formerly of CNN and MSNBC and now a Fox News contributor, and Neil Patel, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.