Interesting article from unlikely source

[Fountain79]

http://www.maximonline.com/grit/articles/article_6784.html


As I write this, it’s a sunny summer day in America, the third summer of war, and one year, one month, and two days since Jeff Lucey, a Marine reservist who came home from Iraq with a big smile on his face, hanged himself in his parents’ basement. It was Tuesday, June 22, 2004. Before he killed himself, Jeff shaved and cleaned himself up. He wrote letters to his family and his girlfriend. He arranged a group of photographs on the floor before him, placed his battalion coin below them, and then hanged himself with a garden hose.


Some might have a problem with the magazine site that this comes from but it definitely is a very interesting article. If you are unfamiliar with Maxin it's like Cosmo for guys but with the same pictures of women.

[stop the bleeding]

1. Just goes to show how much anti war feelings are out there when

"trend/advice" mags like this cover an issue in this sort of fashion.

[Fountain79]

2. Actually

Having been a subscriber to Maxim before, they do a decent job with the serious articles that they put out there. Of course they tend to be right next to the somewhat dubious advice articles but they tend to do a good job.

[stop the bleeding]

3. Sorry I am not a subscriber, but do they make their points in serious

issues in this sort of fashion. I mean the story was very real and very grim. Just like reality

[Fountain79]

6. They do decent work

I know it sounds cliche for someone to say a magazine like this has good articles but they really do sometimes.

[stop the bleeding]

8. No it is not cleche, call it like it is, Hopefully Fitz is calling it like

it is. 10-50 years in Iraq according to Rice - wahoo! :sarcasm:

[CAG]

4. Heres the part I like... take this, freeper hypocrites:

"That’s Jason on the surface. But he’s got ugly pictures inside his head, dead friends he feels he has to live for, no love for the military, and a truckload of anger for civilians. That anger shoots out in all directions—at people who bitch and moan about the smallest inconvenience in their world while soldiers die in Iraq, at the grasping and accumulation of a consumer society, and at those little yellow ribbons stuck on the backs of our cars.

“People put those stickers on their cars to make themselves feel better about themselves,” he says. “It makes them feel they’re doing their part, so they don’t seem like bad people. I mean, do you really believe in supporting our troops? Do you really believe in bringing them home now, or do you just get that thing to slap on your car? Do you even know it’s still there?”

[Broken_Hero]

5. Sad story...

truly sad...:(

[Draill]

7. This is a good article.

I hope many people read it. Very sad.