My last blog post spoke of the disconnectedness of those in our military community from the public at large. The first line of an article in a Seattle newspaper about this tragedy was, “we may never know what happened”-Complete and utter balderdash-Easier to absolve ourselves from our societal responsibility of “if we send them, we must mend them” by chalking it up to the randomness of the Universe rather than actually investigating the appalling lack of resources that are available to those that we ask to carry the burden of multiple deployments and multiple tactical operation areas.
by Peter Whalen
