Military veterans take their own lives 22 times each day. That means there are over 8,000 suicides by this group each year. In 2012, the active duty military suicide rate hit an all time high at 349. These numbers are continuing to grow each and every year, and this statistic tells a sad tale.
One could speculate as to why these self killings have expanded out of control, but the bottom line is that as long as the U.S. government continues its aggressive wars, and the military continues giving its cowardly orders to slaughter innocent people around the world, including women and children, suicides among the ranks of current and past soldiers will only become more and more common.
If one takes a realistic and critical look at what actually goes on in the military today, it should come as no surprise that these robots of war increasingly kill themselves. The indoctrination of these men begins from the first day of “service,” and never ceases throughout the career of soldiers. That indoctrination includes a massive desensitizing that is meant to undermine any normal, moral, and compassionate thinking by destroying all aspects of common humanity. The teaching by the military of unholy hatred of others around the world, especially those who are not part of the western culture, is a travesty, and can have long lasting effects on the minds of those who voluntarily accept this soldiering lifestyle.
There is another aspect of this horror of war and combat that is now evident. That is that more women are joining the military, and they have just “won” the right to stand beside the men in mortal combat. Do any not understand that these women will also succumb to the plight of suicide? Even in their own ranks, rape and abuse is common, but what will happen when they are at the mercy of not only their own, but of the U.S. government’s purposely created enemies? What will change in the personality of women combat soldiers who are ordered to kill women, and much more devastating, children. That of course is the most unnatural situation possible!
Most in this country have come to believe that the suicide problem in the military is due to some sort of mysterious “mental illness.” But is it an unsubstantiated mental problem, a reaction to psychotropic drugs supposedly meant to alleviate those problems, or is it that the human conscience simply cannot in most circumstances cope with its own demonic behavior?
How much war against innocents, and how much senseless slaughter can the average human accept? How much torture, murder, starvation, and destruction can be absorbed before one begins to question his own sanity. How much mental and physical agony can one man endure?
So long as this heinous and evil government is allowed to exist, war will be the norm. So long as the government and military continue to use the young in this country as cannon fodder for their aggression, maiming and death will be the result. So long as the military industrial complex of corporate defense contractors are able to lobby for even more war, more will die for nothing. And because of these things, more and more will continue to take their own lives in order to escape their horrible pain; pain that is completely avoidable and unnecessary. All that is required is to not to kill others on the orders of the demons who control the government and its military!