{"id":2935,"date":"2009-02-11T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:52:09","slug":"sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/sad\/","title":{"rendered":"lest we forget…"},"content":{"rendered":"
While the recently reported increasing rate of suicides in Army personell is disturbing to all of us, and the Army’s programs to address the problem are laudable, I don’t find these figures surprising or something that the Army is likely to be able to do much about. It’s just what happens in protracted, senseless Wars: <\/div>\n

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Suicide in the Trenches<\/strong>;<\/td>\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siegfried Sassoon, 1918<\/em><\/td>\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I KNEW<\/font> a simple soldier boy<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who grinned at life in empty joy,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
And whistled early with the lark.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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In winter trenches, cowed and glum,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
He put a bullet through his brain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No one spoke of him again.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The hell where youth and laughter go.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the recently reported increasing rate of suicides in Army personell is disturbing to all of us, and the Army’s programs to address the problem are laudable, I don’t find these figures surprising or something that the Army is likely to be able to do much about. It’s just what happens in protracted, senseless Wars: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}