pknopp
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The enemy could never break him, but what this decorated Green Beret eventually found was that his enemy was within. Friends who served with him in the military say he was the real “Captain America.”.......................
......................... His death sent shock waves through the military. His friends, family and military leaders were at a loss. Many told Fox News that Marckesano never got over his tour in Afghanistan's Arghandab Valley in 2009 with the 2-508, a battalion that had one of the highest casualty rates of any unit during the war. “That deployment was like being in the ring with Mike Tyson for a year,” according to the battalion’s former Command Sgt Major Bert Puckett.
Maybe the damage was already done but by 2009 we had absolutely no business still being in Afghanistan.
Marckesano’s suicide was the 30th from this battalion. He is one of the 20 combat veterans taking their lives each day -- an epidemic the military and White House are trying to stop. Last month, President Trump launched the PREVENTS Task Force with a White House ceremony.
The 30th suicide. An epidemic that the military and White House is trying to stop? No they aren't. They could have stopped it years ago. Bring them home.
Bush, Cheney, Obama, Hillary, Trump and a long list of others deserve nothing better than to rot in hell for what they have done.
Army's 'Captain America' dies by suicide after nearly a dozen combat tours
Damn that's sad. Where I live I know of at least one person, a 27 year old Iraq veteran, who was riding along with someone and just jumped out of the car at 50 mph, killing him. He had been undergoing therapy for PTSD. He will not be classified as a casualty of Iraq, but it killed him. Another was burned so badly by an IED he was unrecognizable but completely healthy. He OD'd on heroin. How many soldiers have taken their lives since their return from Iraq or Afghanistan? They are not counted as combat deaths, but they surely are.
My son in law was in Iraq. It's sad how many times he posts about someone he served with killing themselves. He has issues from being there but seems to have it pretty much under control.