Got His Gun: Lost His Legs, Arms, and Penis

If essays about drone murders aren't getting through to you, then perhaps this one about injuries to our own children will:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/10/got-his-gun-lost-his-legs-arms-and-penis/

Back in the states, two young parents and “two pretty adolescent girls,” step up “to sit on the padded platforms in the center of the room. They move with the tentative sobriety of shock. Aides wheel in a gurney that bears a bundle in a flannel sheet. They gather the edges of the sheet and swing the package over the platform into the very heart of the family. Carefully they lower it and then begin to peel away the wrapping. There, revealed, restored to the family, is the son, their boy, not dead, but missing both arms, both legs, and some part — it’s impossible to tell how much — of his lower torso. The director calls out a cheery greeting, ‘Hi Bobby! How are you doing today?’ Bobby tries to answer but makes no sound. He flops on the platform, an emaciated head, eyes full of fear, his chest all bones under a damp grey ARMY tee shirt…”

Be all that you can be.

As a nation, we need to STOP this insanity. If we do not, our nation will die along with all these soldiers and innocent people who are being killed or maimed just so we can persist in our delusions of American goodness.