Mass native, Iraq War victim, by suicide

[TayTay]

Yes, this is why I wrote what I wrote on Sat about the Senator needing to focus on Iraq. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=122141&mesg_id=122397

This is completely heartbreaking. I am at a loss to say what I haven't said already. Senator, go help end this and help get funding for those who are injured. My God! This must end.

Michael Bramer, at 23; strove to cope after injury in Iraq
An accident in Iraq blinded Michael Bramer in one eye.
By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff | January 30, 2007

The first time that Michael J. Bramer died, he was serving in Iraq, his sister said, and he felt a tranquillity that was elusive in the months after he was brought back to life.

"What he talked about in the beginning was the feeling he felt when his heart stopped," said Barbara Bramer of Boston. "He said it was just very peaceful for him, and that was his expectation of what he would have had if they didn't revive him."

Then a sergeant first class in special forces with the Army's 82d Airborne Division, Mr. Bramer suffered severe head injuries in October 2003, when part of an unstable structure collapsed as he was helping string barbed wire outside Baghdad, his sister said. The impact blinded him in one eye. During surgery, plates were placed in his head. Soon, a series of migraines, each more acute, disturbed his days and nights.

Discharged from the Army in June, Mr. Bramer had been living in a Fayetteville, N.C., apartment. At 23, he had set aside his hopes of attending MIT, where he had taken summer courses during high school in Boston. On Jan. 17, while his roommate and a friend were downstairs, he turned up the surround sound on his television and took his life in his bedroom, his sister said.

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Senator, Godspeed on Iraq, Godspeed. May Mr. Bramer's family find peace.

[Island Blue]

1. This is heartbreaking Tay.

Simply heartbreaking. All of these veterans returning home, all with "hidden wounds". Iraq is not the only battlefield in this war. The second front is here at home and these veterans, like their Vietnam era fathers and mothers before them, will be fighting this war for the rest of their lives.

This war MUST end.

[ProSense]

2. Heartbreaking! n/t