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[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Just think, that kid was ready to lay his life down to protect the freedoms of the very people who are sticking it to him.

Eh, anyone in the military is always restricted from certain freedoms.

Originally Posted by MouseWife

But that isn't what was decided, we are not talking about what should or could have been done. But what they decided to do after the fact.

I still maintain that someone at any given point should have said "this is ridiculous, give the kid his A and let's forget about the whole thing." But as scaeagles said, in our litigious, finger pointing society, this just isn't possible anymore. Anyone with a brain is going to get shouted down for not "taking every precaution."

Hmm, which country to move to...

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I still develop a suicide plan almost daily.

God bless Alex Stroup. I've done this a-plenty, but not lately.

Things I daydream about:

Punching people and smashing things (born of pure frustration)
My own death and the deaths of others, often including funerals (always very dramatic accidents)
What I'd do if someone ran the red light at the next corner/pulled out of the driveway up ahead/slammed on the brakes in front of me on the freeway. Sometimes these are so vivid, I flinch.