More war veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas.

[JoeContrarian]

Welcome, berg.

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[wilheim]

And he calls me a REMF

Do you deny it?

I live where I want, before living here I was living in Falmouth for a couple of years. How long have you been trapped off Cape paying thru the nose in Taxachusetts? Run up to Brocton and visit some Vets in the detox, it will do you some good.


Berq, something tells me you and Barman are having a laugh on the forum, but what do I know.

Classsic words of wisdom from Berq.

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The Dimwits could fuck up a 2 car funeral

4 months ago, Bitchlery was a "Lock"...how fitting around here, eh?

OsamaRama the racist elitist is the candidate....

HillBillary is banished to the trash pile of politcal history.....

Willie "The Big Dog" has bitten his own ass and is on the verge of 3rd stage Altzheimers

Save your pleas your fleas and your cries for help

McCain in a rout....

Bah-wah-hahahahahahahaha

In 2006 Nancy Pelosi stated the American people had issued a mandate to the Dimwitted Party to change things for the better...

Under her leadership the price of gas has risen from $2.40 per gallon to $4.....

You go girls
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More 7th grade wit. Spewing tripe, you must be a laugh a minute around a campfire.

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bwaha!

The guy's a POS out to save his tranished reputation at the cost of anyone/anything/anytime/anyhow

Any general that would openly criticize his fellow officer while said fellow officer is in the midst of a successful combat campaign, is a POS...period...especially when the dirtbag spewing tripe has proven to be a failure in the field

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With only 17 posts Berq may have set a record for hilarious attempts at insulting strangers.


BTW - lighten up on the namecalling or be gone permantely.

In the meantime Pray up a Storm.


wilheim.

 

[barman]

...and btw....Hanoi John Kerry is a disingenous cowardly ass who served in the Brown Water Navy, where medals never came cheaper...

RB...how's it hangin' these day?

Hope you're logging plenty of time laying pavement and storing extra nuts to get you through the brutal Erie winter where IMHO you should be spending your time capping and gambling on football, watching the Browns make their first playoff run since holycowIcan'trememberwhen and of course chasing Mrs Berq around the now empty Berq nest.


You get down to DC this spring for RollingThunder events?

 

[barman]

WIL, I've got a modest level of cyber fraternal experience with BERQ going back to days at VegasInsider forum and the now retired IBETTOR forum.

He's a fairly straight shooter, avid Browns fan, avid Ravens (Modell) hater and has mentioned that he's fine if he never crosses the MasonDixon line ever again (going south that is...)

His attempts at humor range from DeadOnPoint to SemiGrumpyIHateLiberals and I for one wish he'd use the RxForum a bit more often this coming football season because he's got a pretty decent eye for AFC football and also BigEast/ACC and other eastern CFB.

Plus, he remains genuinely friendly to me over past ten years despite our foreign policy politics being about as far apart as two men can get.

 

[bblight]

Do you deny it?

I live where I want, before living here I was living in Falmouth for a couple of years. How long have you been trapped off Cape paying thru the nose in Taxachusetts? Run up to Brocton and visit some Vets in the detox, it will do you some good.

wilheim.

I must agree about "Taxachusetts" - but my family and friends are here, so here I stay.

Funny you should mention the Brockton VA - I'm there several times a year to visit and support our fellow comrades. I've also been to the WR VA and I've played bus driver a few times for people needing a ride to the clinics at the JP VA. I won't say it's all pleasurable, bit I feel very satisfied and fulfilled doing these things. I find as I get older, I get more involved. I'm a member of several vets organizations and we go out of our way to support vets who are down on their luck - not just in the VA, but vets who aren's in the sytem and need a helping hand.

The funny thing is, when dealing with and trading "war stories" with "old" and "new" war vets who have mental and physical traumas and disabilities, men who have been there and done that - not one has ever belittled me by calling me a REMF.

BTW, When I'm doing volunteer service at the VA, I like to wear green pants and Hawaiian shirts and refer to them as Air Force Jungle fatigues - it gets a laugh and breaks the ice. Even if, by the definitions of some dis-satisfied vets, I was a REMF, I'm proud of my service.

 

[bblight]

...and btw....Hanoi John Kerry is a disingenous cowardly ass who served in the Brown Water Navy, where medals never came cheaper...

I gotta disagree - Kerry was and is, IMO, a pompous, self aggrandizing ass, who is the exception that proves the rule - the brown water river rats earned their medals the hard way - they earned them.

 

[wilheim]

Funny you should mention the Brockton VA - I'm there several times a year to visit and support our fellow comrades. I've also been to the WR VA and I've played bus driver a few times for people needing a ride to the clinics at the JP VA. I won't say it's all pleasurable, bit I feel very satisfied and fulfilled doing these things. I find as I get older, I get more involved. I'm a member of several vets organizations and we go out of our way to support vets who are down on their luck - not just in the VA, but vets who aren's in the sytem and need a helping hand.

Good for you, it's a worth while endeavor. I have been a patient at Brocton in 1990 in the detox and in the rehab next door, West Roxbury also in 1990, Jamaica Plain in 1992, out patient to this day at the Hyannis Clinic on the Cape and The Providence VA hospital in Rhode Island.

I have driven dozens of vets to the Brocton VA hospital on Belmont st. to building two so they could enter into the detox. Commonly known as 12 step work in AA, you never took someone to rehab alone, 12 steppers always went accompanied by another person well into recovery for safety (to watch each other with an active alkie).

I have told my own story at the Brocton VA detox and rehab (to vets), Bridgewater St hospital, and in church basements all over Massachusetts as part of an AA speaking commitment groups. The trips to the Brocton VA for me were the most meaningful, just because of the hope of reaching even one sick and suffering vet who was an alcoholic and trying to get sober.

Personally I have not had a drink since April 22nd 1990 when I entered Brocton's detox nearly dead from alcohol. Thanks to the VA and AA I have managed to stay sober one day at a time for over 18 years.

I even attend English speaking meetings here in Costa Rica but not as frequently as I did in the early years. My first year sober I went to two meetings a day for the entire year. One at noon and one at around 7PM everyday - around 700 meetings.

I learned to drink in Viet Nam, but never became involved with drugs while there - it was booze for me.


wil.

 

[festeringZit]

Good for you, it's a worth while endeavor. I have been a patient at Brocton in 1990 in the detox and in the rehab next door, West Roxbury also in 1990, Jamaica Plain in 1992, out patient to this day at the Hyannis Clinic on the Cape and The Providence VA hospital in Rhode Island.

I have driven dozens of vets to the Brocton VA hospital on Belmont st. to building two so they could enter into the detox. Commonly known as 12 step work in AA, you never took someone to rehab alone, 12 steppers always went accompanied by another person well into recovery for safety (to watch each other with an active alkie).

I have told my own story at the Brocton VA detox and rehab (to vets), Bridgewater St hospital, and in church basements all over Massachusetts as part of an AA speaking commitment groups. The trips to the Brocton VA for me were the most meaningful, just because of the hope of reaching even one sick and suffering vet who was an alcoholic and trying to get sober.

Personally I have not had a drink since April 22nd 1990 when I entered Brocton's detox nearly dead from alcohol. Thanks to the VA and AA I have managed to stay sober one day at a time for over 18 years.

I even attend English speaking meetings here in Costa Rica but not as frequently as I did in the early years. My first year sober I went to two meetings a day for the entire year. One at noon and one at around 7PM everyday - around 700 meetings.

I learned to drink in Viet Nam, but never became involved with drugs while there - it was booze for me.


wil.

Wil,

Despite our clear political differences, you seem like a real class act.
I'm glad you are the head mod on here, and I think you do a great
job. Congrats on staying sober, that is quite an accomplishment.
I also salute and honor your service to this country.

FZ

 

[wilheim]

festeringZit

Thanks for the kind words. I know Rx management and the entire Rx mod team appreciate all of your regular and intelligent contributions to the site.


Thanks and best of luck, wil..:toast:

 

[Willie99]

You've been proved to be liar on these forums by myself, so i guess you should know.

The liar's liar lying again. You proved what and where? :missingte:missingte:missingte

Since your positions and your arguments are so weak, I understand the need for you to embellish, so I'll cut you a little slack.

However, I'd advise you to just make better arguments, it'll do wonders for your self esteem.

 

[Buster]

NOT SAYING IT WAS SUICIDE...HOWEVER?

don't know why it took so long to hit the paper here

http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/700253.html

Soldier in famed Iraq photo dies
An overdose may have caused the death of the medic who cradled an injured boy in his arms.
Associated Press

PINEHURST --
A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose, police said.

Joseph Patrick Dwyer died last week at a hospital in Pinehurst, according to the Boles Funeral Home. He was 31.

The photograph, taken in March 2003, showed Dwyer running to a makeshift military hospital while cradling the boy.

The photo appeared in newspapers, magazines and television broadcasts worldwide, making Dwyer a symbol of heroism.

Dwyer laughed when a reporter told him of the photo and its widespread circulation, and he tried to deflect focus to his entire unit. His mother, Maureen, said then that the photo embarrassed her son because it singled him out while other soldiers were doing the same thing.

Last week, Dwyer called a local taxi service to take him to the hospital after an apparent overdose, Capt. Floyd Thomas of the Pinehurst Police Department told the Fayetteville Observer. When the driver arrived, Dwyer said he couldn't get to the door, according to a police report.

Police kicked in the door at Dwyer's request, and he was taken by ambulance to a Pinehurst hospital.

Thomas said bottles of prescription pills were found near Dwyer when police arrived. The former medic died later the night of June 28, according to authorities.

Dwyer served with the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of Fort Stewart, Ga. He earned the Combat Medical Badge and other military awards.

 

[Buster]

here is the picture..

http://media.msnbc.msn.com/j/msnbc/1841000/1841736.hmedium.jpg

 

[teazeman]

Buster:

for your many years of service and enduring separation from family and friends uncle sam will reward you, in addition to your dd214, with the following:

1. ptsd, with limited access to proper care we figure you'll work it out on your own.
2. substance abuse, if you can't get number 1 strainght, have a drink or snort it'll make you feel better.
3. broken family, hell you can pick up a wife and a couple of kids on most any street corner
4. suicide, if none of the above work just shoot yourself in the fcuking head and we'll quickly move on without you.

BUSTER, i read this story last night and looks like i was 4 for 4 with the above post.........another hero left by the wayside.........damn shame.

 

[Willie99]

We should do for our vets whatever it is that is possible to do. I want them to receive much more than they do. National defense is the first priority of the federal government, and those responsible for national defense should receive more compensation and benefits.

It's also true that many do not take advantage of what may be available to them. Maybe we can spend those funds differently.

 

[barman]

We should do for our vets whatever it is that is possible to do. I want them to receive much more than they do. National defense is the first priority of the federal government....

Indeed. Which is why we put our military forces at even greater mental and physical risk when we coerce them into doing dangerous service in regions that have little to do with defending the homeland.