The event, hosted by the local Veterans for Peace chapter and several other groups, focused on the rising number of servicemen and women who have taken their lives after returning from combat.
Somebody f***ed with their mind?
Pat Scanlon, a Vietnam War veteran who coordinated Monday’s event, said, “The incidence of suicide in Afghanistan and Iraq is going up. What is the cause for that?”
Being ordered to carry out atrocities based on lies.
Kevin Lucey spoke from firsthand experience about suicide among veterans. His son Jeffrey, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, hanged himself with a garden hose in the basement of his parents’ home in 2004....
See: How to Honor a Suicider
The Boston Globe Goes Antiwar
Veterans Getting a Piece of Iraq
Taking Interest in the American War Dead
Not forgotten at Monday’s event were Afghan and Iraqi civilians who lost their lives as their countries became war zones....
Millions of them.
To conclude the ceremony, veterans read the names of each Massachusetts soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. With each name, a carnation was dropped into the harbor to the sound of a tolling bell.
Did it sound like this?
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