I had the good misfortune to have heard of all this before, although I didn't hear estimates were a full third.
Of course the Pentagon would prefer to put all the money into their next death ray rather than quality of life assurances for the military personnel.
How can they hope to control us if we are not made quiet and held in place like cattle?
Young men and women convinced that dying for their country is proper and honorable. Women are used and abused and told to stay quiet for the good of the country. We are not the only country at fault of this, we are simply the most powerful.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
8 October 1917 - March, 1918
Let young men fight for the old men's wars
You must sacrifice privacy, for your safety
You must sacrifice choice, for your safety
You must sacrifice freedom, for your safety
You must die, for others safety
