The Death of an Army of One

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This is a diary written by a former U.S. GI and American expat living in the European Union who is writing about US military and veteran suicide.



Did you know "The Army of One" used to be a recruiting slogan? This is a sober diary about the state of these United States in the year 2014, where yet once again active duty military personnel are threatening through sobering statistics.........that more service members have committed suicide than were killed in combat and that more or less in America everyday about 22 veterans commit suicide. That is nearly one an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a posture where death takes no holiday. Death never goes on strike. It simply soldier's on, taking our brothers and sisters.

(Please click on the link below to read my article. Thanks)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/15/1291895/-The-Death-of-an-Army-of-One

[Aristus]

1. "Army Of One" was the stupidest, most ridiculous, God-awful recruiting slogan in American military

history.

It made it sound as if our troops were simply isolated individuals with no responsibility to one another, and us with no responsibility to them.

It made me long for the glory days of "Be All That You Can Be."

No more wars of choice.