A group of Marines ogling a pinup girl outside their bunkers in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, in January 1968

Targetting Congressional Pages or Toe Tapping in public bathroom stalls is just fine and dandy, as well as giving male prostitutes seemingly unlimitted access to the White House Press Room and only rove knows where else, and the other numorous sex related adventures of mostly republican congressmen, bet the women have a few little secrets themselves.

But shockingly, once again, after being the Lead Cheerleaders, along with their equally sex confused talking heads, o'really are you listening, you to fatboy cyst, to the extremely failed policy of Wars/Occupations Of Choice we get this:

I don't need to add anything to the below, one: I'm not there, two: what's below says it all, three: this Country put it's Military Through All This Before to my Brother 'Nam Vets and followed up with Every Deployment Since!

How many know what's happening with the Gulf War I Vets!

No long-winded essay today.

Just a note on the state of things regarding our military and the denial of mental health trauma and service for said traumas.

Think of all the suicides that happen and try to grasp that 1 of every 5 is a military person.

Report on the flip.

The following is a Video report from CBS as a Lead In to a Report, now online but to be printed in tomorrows {todays} Washington Post from Dana Priest.

A Soldier's Cry For Help - CBS News Video

I'm gonna use ilona's graphic as a point, and well she's a part of this, a big part.

Shout It Out

On December 12, 2007, there's a hearing on Stopping Suicide and Ending Homelessness: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs by the House Veterans' Affairs Committee,

Ilona Meagher, of PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within is scheduled to be one of the ones to testify at this Congressional hearing, as many already know.

I'm off to work, but caught this, it was just posted about 45min ago, and wanted many to read it.

Iraq, Afghan vets at risk for suicides

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP

WASHINGTON - Mary Gallagher did not get a knock at the door from a military chaplain with news of her Marine husband's death in a faraway place. Instead, the Iraq war veteran committed suicide eight months after returning home.