If strong men like this break, then lesser men are sure to break sooner. This is why we need to keep our involvement in foreign wars to an absolute minimum. We are darkening the souls of our countrymen when we send them to war too long.
If the moderators won’t take action, you might want to delete this thread since some of the comments here represent the most reprehensible comments about the tragic suicide of a military hero that I have ever witnessed on this site before...........What have we become?
Prayers that the Loving arms of Jesus welcomed my brother in arms home. It is a difficult transition after so much intense purpose. For those who served alongside, peace. For those who will blame themselves, peace. Everyone thinks about it. It is not the answer and it destroys those who are most important.
RIP!
Very sad. It’s ridiculous that we ask a man to serve 6 tours in Afghanistan...not ask, but really that it’s possible to serve 6 tours there. End this useless war Mr. Trump.
I would guess a suicide like this is they type due to depression, in your mind, think you are retaliating with, like when your wife tells you shes is leaving and taking the kids. Had a close friend who did that same thing in front of his wife when she told him it was over. Devastating.
You serve twelve tours.
You come home and Americans are attacking statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
You risk your life alongside Americans of African Descent.
You come home and are told that you are a racist by people who think wearing a certain t-shirt is really risky.
If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
Major Michael Davis O’Donnell
KIA 1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
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Never know what someone is going through. A tragedy on many levels, but foremost for his wife. Heartbreaking.
Did his wife recently file for divorce?
Insane ROE’s are leading to unnecessary casualties. Recalcitrant villages playing host to multiple rebel attacks should long ago have been rounded up and sent into exile, into the wastelands, Trail of Tears style. Villages with few incidents should have been awarded their land. Unfortunately, we are too politically-correct to do this kind of occupation. The only thing left to do is withdraw. Maybe when New York City is nuked by terrorists, American public opinion will develop a little more spine and respect for the life of the American fighting man, thanks to the literal removal of New Yorkers from the gene pool. Or maybe we need literal mutiny and a Franco-style revolution.
Some times the damage is so deep that it cannot be repaired.
I pray for him and him and his family. They are now victims of something they may never have any answers to. Just the pain.
He was no coward, he was just damaged from the life he was living. RIP sir.
Tragic. How old was he ?
Very sad.
Having spent a tour at the Pentagon, I can almost understand ending it all.