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Every vet is killed by war. Whether or not they died in war is secondary. My father fought in Vietnam against his own morals and came back so horribly broken that he drank himself to death to cope.
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Every vet is killed by war. Whether or not they died in war is secondary. There's that quote attributed to Plato: "only the dead have seen the end of war." That said, apparently actual Plato scholars say they've never seen that quote. Apparently the earliest attestation is George Santayana in 1926. But that's the same guy with the line "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" so he was pretty on the ball.
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Jun 1, 2018 04:21
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Teikanmi posted:no because i don't make friends with anyone retarded enough to join the military Like it says in the OP, anyone in a war counts, it's not just USmil. Lol if you don't know anyone who got killed serving in the IRA, FARC, or Congolese MLC.
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Jun 1, 2018 04:23
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did u ever kill anyone in the war OP? or any other goons? I want to know
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Jun 1, 2018 05:00
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Nooner posted:did u ever kill anyone in the war OP? or any other goons? I want to know Does artillery count?
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Jun 1, 2018 05:05
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the last official war for the usa was ww2, so im gonna hazard a no here op
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Jun 1, 2018 05:08
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my great great grandfather died fighting in the trenches of world war 1. lucky for me he had some kids before he left
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Jun 1, 2018 05:42
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General China posted:Thanks for your comment you window licker. Yep I some how missed the the whole 20 years later thing, my bad  .
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Jun 1, 2018 06:12
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Rutibex posted:my great great grandfather died fighting in the trenches of world war 1. lucky for me he had some kids before he left Unfortunate for everyone else though.
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Jun 2, 2018 00:09
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Yes. Someone in the grade above me, who I went to school with for about a decade, was killed in Afghanistan. He was a combat medic. Unfortunately the small town that I am from responded to this by doubling down on unquestioning support for the military and everything that they do. How his death didn't show them the absolute futility of the war I have no idea. He could still be alive today if we didn't keep sending people to die in that pointless quagmire for no reason. gently caress
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Jun 2, 2018 00:25
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I lost loving NINETEEN friends in one engagement.
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Jun 2, 2018 04:53
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Vato posted:Dodging the draft was/is not like not appearing for jury duty. But all right. No need to dodge. Just go all who gives a gently caress, drive a truck. poo poo birds get the easy jobs anyways.
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Jun 2, 2018 05:04
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Nobody killed but a friend I've known since grade school ditched the arts (he could have been a pretty good horn player) and joined the US Marines straight out of highschool. He was already mentally unstable and clearly he went off to Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and he was shot in the chest during s firefight. His SAPI plate saved his life but the bullet fragments tore his biceps up and he couldn't go back. He gave me some of his old gear and something of an armchair interest in the USMC, but man he said some hosed up things about killing kids and it might have been better if he had never come back. Extra weird twist: we're Canadian. My best-friend-turned-worst-enemy joined the CF recently, and I sometimes wish for a war or something because I hope he gets blown to bits.
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Jun 2, 2018 06:10
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Not death but my late father in-law and his siblings/parents were war refugees.
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Jun 2, 2018 06:18
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other people posted:just lol if you are dumb enough to volunteer for any branch of the US military die for your country abroad or be forgotten in the gutter back home its the american way!
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Jun 2, 2018 06:31
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clone on the phone posted:die for your country abroad and/or be forgotten in the gutter back home its the american way!
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Jun 2, 2018 06:39
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My grandfather WWII, my fiancé due to issues from fighting in Vietnam. And RIP Vilerat.
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Jun 2, 2018 07:02
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I was in the war so yea, a few. A bunch of guys I was in the invasion of Iraq with volunteered to go again and went to Fallujah and never came back. I remember all my friends I lost better than the friends that are still alive. I hate war.
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Jun 2, 2018 07:08
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Shamino posted:Yes but they were killed by US soldiers, lol. ptsd fuelled suicide because your gay dumb oval office of a country has gently caress all mental health support still counts, friend
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Jun 2, 2018 10:38
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Nooner posted:did u ever kill anyone in the war OP? or any other goons? I want to know Yea, it sucks.
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Jun 2, 2018 10:44
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The closest story I have is my grandfather's brother in WW2 that I never met. He was flying a lot of night bombing missions as the bombardier, and the pilot's controls got flipped or weren't working from damage and they landed upside down and the whole crew died. I did work with a guy who was working there temporarily because he took two rounds in the shoulder and arm in Afghanistan (I think it was there) ambush, though. We always used to freely admit that he could have probably wiped out the entire department of frail computer nerds in like 30 seconds bare handed if he wanted to, nice guy but tough as nails. He ultimately got re-qualified and went back into the military once his shoulder fully healed.
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Jun 2, 2018 11:00
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Grem posted:I was in the war so yea, a few. A bunch of guys I was in the invasion of Iraq with volunteered to go again and went to Fallujah and never came back. I remember all my friends I lost better than the friends that are still alive. I hate war. drat man, I'm sorry. gently caress Fallujah. That place is like a meat grinder of sheer horror. Every time the really really bad stuff goes down, it seems to be Fallujah.
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Jun 2, 2018 11:02
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A guy I went to high school with died in Afghanistan at 22 last year or so. Up until just recently his latest Facebook post still said he's getting deployed and to wish him luck overseas. He was killed by friendly fire.
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Jun 2, 2018 13:11
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Every vet is killed by war. Whether or not they died in war is secondary. My brother who served in the Coast Guard in the War on Drugs isn't dead yet and I kinda doubt he will die because of it.
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Jun 4, 2018 14:51
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Every dead American soldier is now having unwanted gay sex in hell
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Jun 4, 2018 15:22
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We're all getting killed in the war on Christmas if you think about it
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