An article was published least week that claimed there are two veterans who commit suicide for every death in battle. I don’t know if it is true, but there is definitely a major problem.
I avoided the military and going to Vietnam legally. I was willing to go at first, but when my friends came home with deep psychological, spiritual problems I decided to see when my birthday would get picked in the draft lottery and got lucky. I have family now in the military. It can be a very honorable profession. War always takes a terrible toll on combatants. Also I have family who had police careers.
Friends I knew in high school and college came home deeply troubled and some did not come home. Many if not most became alcoholic. Many became drug dependent. Their marriages were under stress and many divorced. Some told stories of committing atrocities. One killed a 12 year old boy who threw a grenade and killed his buddy. Another was a sniper who killed dozens of men.
These young men I grew up with, went to school with, worked with all came home and were haunted. PTSD is real. They were normal happy teenagers and young twenty somethings when they went off to war.
Over the years my work brought me in contact with military from every branch of service, including many SF. Again I encountered them as they were returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military now does a much better job at helping people readjust than it did with those returning from Vietnam. Still, I see the toll the duress war takes on combatants, the divorces, nightmares, constant stress.
People come home with PTSD from a mission to build a church or school in an impoverished nation, or there needs to be special help available geting people to readjust to society, or deal with suicidal thoughts. I don’t think such people have to battle addictions too often.
Setting the issue aside on whether a policeman is acting morally if he chooses to use street profanity when making arrests, I wonder why it is that the majority of the servicemen I encountered over a lifetime, especially Marines, use such language in every sentence that comes out of their mouths. Why is it that they can’t go eat a pizza, but go have a sexually intercoursing pizza and a sexually intercoursing beer and the sexually intercoursing plane is not on time? They exhult in being crude. One man I know came home and at the dinner table with his family said pass the effing butter. I believe there may be some connection between the constant stream of profane language that comes out of their mouths, to the degradation that comes from the life experiences of the combat veteran and the policeman in a high crime area. It is really a similar experience.
Jesus says a man’s mouth speaks the treasure of his heart. What comes out of the mouth is in the heart. It is commonly reported that the Secretary of State, HC, talks like a Marine. She does not need to get the attention of street criminals. It is just who she is inside.
There is no evidence or data to substantiate the claim that a policeman has a better chance of making an arrest if he says put your hands up or put your sexually intercoursing hands up. It is a baseless claim, a claim a policeman might believe to be true, but there is no evidence that it is true. The language is part of the culture with a sick impure heart.
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