Letters to the Editor
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Maybe Berk will do a strip on military suicide rates
"An average of 18 military veterans kill themselves each day, and five of them are under VA care when they commit suicide, according to a December e-mail between top VA officials that was filed as part of the federal lawsuit." -- So sayeth the wire service.
Eighteen suicides a day. Chew on that. If there were eighteen suicides a day in our country's high schools, the news media would be shitting a ring around itself assigning "think-piece" packages. That fucking old vampire Larry King would host everybody from Dr. Phil to Phil Donahue to wring their hands and roll their eyes at this epidemic of suicides. Oh shit, oh dear, what CAN we do?
But 18 military veterans, some fresh from the war, some still trying to cope after GW I, Vietnam, Korea and even WWII, and what kind of media coverage does that staggering statistic get?
Fuckin' nothing. A press release.
Where's that decrepit old bomber jock, Johnny McCoin? You'd think with all the crocodile tears he sheds for his fellow veterans, (while opposing the new G.I. Bill), he would be beating his chest like King Kong trying to make this a campaign issue. No Vet Left Behind instead of Fuck Every Vet's Behind.
Even that PURE EVIL Santa Monica think tank, the RAND Corp., the Pentagon's contract "think-up-evil-shit" consultant, has put out an estimate that "300,000 U.S. troops — about 20 percent of those deployed — are suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan."
So what do say, BERK? Are you going to finally grow a pair and draw some strips that actually deal with the cold shit that's raining down on us, or are you just going to continue to jack off in your own little pastel-colored world of useless, bland Sunday morning loath-to-offend-the-sheep strips?