Senator Murray Hearing Today

[Berta]

Larry Scott will be at the hearing:

http://vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfAUG07/nf081707-4.htm

[Pete53]

Well they are up to their old tricks trying to poo poo it off. It seems that they now claim that the reason it only goes back to 1981 is that they did not keep those sort of records before and that the people committing suicide are people who were not mentally ill but did it because they were humiliated.

I cannot think of anything more depressing than being redeployed over and over again to a shithole. Please forgive my french.

[Jay Johnson]

One can"believe" in the mission while the mission is going on, yet change their minds down the road. This was exactly what happened in 'nam........military folks "need" to believe in this mission because they don't want to suffer (or watch others suffer) in vain. It took decades for many 'nam vets to come to terms with the ridiculous war that was, because most couldn't come to accept that their friends, and loved one's, deaths could, and should, have been prevented.

I think you are downplaying a serious problem at the detriment of our armed forces and I would choose my words more carefully if I were you......