My friend's grandson forced back to Iraq with PTSD and suicide threats

[GCP]

My friend's grandson Kevin was a starry-eyed 18 year old who signed up for the Marines straight out of HS after 911. By 2003 he was fully trained and was sent to Iraq for the first invasion, where he was in the forward wave all the way.
He's since done another stint there, coming back early this year, after being wounded in the leg, but always knew that come September, he was going to be shipped out again.
He was diagnosed with PTSD this year and was actually in the ER at Camp Pendelton after threatening to kill himself, and the Marines basically came to the ER, had him discharged and put him on the plane for Iraq.
The family is beside themselves, they told their congressman and senators, but got nowhere. All they were told is that he'll be evaluated over there again before being put in combat.

God, I hate this crap. I fucking hate G.W.Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, the whole fucking bunch of them.

[MADem]

1. Desperate times are apparently calling for dispicable, desperate measures

Someone needs to get a copy of his records, quick, before they are scrubbed. If he can't get a hold of his own record and copy it, maybe he can FOIA it himself and have it released to his parents.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I am SO sorry! *hugs and prayers for all of you*

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[mailman82]

3. I Will pray for him!

Contact the Veterans admin. and also your local chapter of Disabled American Vets.Also known as The DAV. They might be able to help. My son is over the for the second time. I just heard from him. Today is his birthday. Please don't give up the fight we can't let these bastards win.

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[eileen_d]

9. Thanks for supporting our troops.

Tell me, who benefits when a suicidal marine is sent back to the front?

[leesa]

10. Oh yeah...melting innocent Iraqis with white phosphorous and napalm

is soooo much more humane. We bombed lots of targets of no military significance in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The fact that you don't give a shit about THOSE people, who did nothing to us by the way, is very disgusting.

Go find your humanity.

[RC]

5. What is 'PTSD'?

ER & HS I have. I wish people would spell things out. It would save so much confusion.

Maybe that is another reason we can't seem to get much done against the criminals, nobody knows for sure what WE are talking about.

[justabob]

6. Post traumatic stress disorder nt

edit.... corrected last word

[elehhhhna]

7. They must call this org., NOW:

http://girights.objector.org/gettingout/odpmc.html

[knitter4democracy]

8. That poor young man.

I will add him to my prayers, and please let us know if there's anything we can do to help.