TheDailyLego Returns (from yesterday)
Finally getting back to my daily Lego therapy sessions. I feel a bigger Lego project coming up...not sure what it'll be but I'm feelin' it...
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Finally getting back to my daily Lego therapy sessions. I feel a bigger Lego project coming up...not sure what it'll be but I'm feelin' it...
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The parents of US Army Reserve Specialist Chancellor Keesling, an Iraq war veteran, received a letter yesterday from the VA asking that their son complete his “Post Deployment Adjustment.” The only problem is, Chance Keesling had killed himself in Iraq nearly five months ago. We speak with Chance’s dad, Gregg Keesling, who’s still waiting for the letter he’s never received: condolences from President Obama. A longstanding US policy denies presidential condolence letters to the families of soldiers who have committed suicide.
Geh... I know this doesn't happen to everyone, but still. This is paperwork that really should have been filed. I mean, are there THAT many soldier suicides that the USMil can't keep their records straight?
Well maybe they are that many suicides. :\ (source: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/20/us_military_suicides_at_record_high )
But that aside, what's with Obama not sending condolence letters to parents of soldiers who took their own lives? So, they're heroes so long as they can ignore the moral aspect of war, but when they can't face themselves any more, their parents are not worthy of an "I'm sorry" letter from the President?
That's kind of despicable.
Suicide isn't the cowards way out in EVERY case--sometimes it's the moral way out.
This is the fastest I've burned through a custom soundtrack put together for a novel I was working on. Sad since I really loved some of the music I chose. Now I'm reverting to stuff that I'm no longer sick of. Can't believe I've ever been sick of John Barry...
However, now, I must go to bed.
Funny, could have sworn my I had sent a pic from my iPhone of my old
I'm staying up for another chapter!!
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE 31K!!! (sorry, it's late, and I'm caffeinated!)
read it: http://manhattanstory.tumblr.com
Now, I'm past the halfway mark in theory--according to the rules ofGood stuff! Especially compared to last night's "Fellini Satyricon". This movie has a coherent plot at least!
Oh yeah... And it's got.... BRAAAAAINS!!!!!
read it: http://manhattanstory.tumblr.com
...and by "last night" I mean early this morning. :)
