Dr. BeardoPuff
[memorial day; death] I kinda low-key hate Memorial Day.
Dr. BeardoPuff
I had a friend who, after 9/11, did the thing a lot of guys fresh out of high school did, and enlisted.
Dr. BeardoPuff
Jeff liked video games. He drew Sonic comics in his notebooks. He wanted to go to art school and major in video game design.
Dr. BeardoPuff
And the army, well, it said they were gonna pay for his education.
Dr. BeardoPuff
He went to Iraq. Several times.
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Was in Fallujah. At the burn pits.
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He did his four years, came back. And almost immediately developed a rare form of soft tissue cancer.
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At age 27.
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And the army denied, until his dying breath, that his time standing in front of burning pits of toxic waste gave him cancer.
Dr. BeardoPuff
Basically his muscles were just. All cancer. By the end.
Dr. BeardoPuff
And if you spent any time today on Ye Olde Person Facebooke you were probably told, several times, who today was for.
Dr. BeardoPuff
TODAY is MEMORIAL DAY and it's for the BRAVE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN who DIED IN UNIFORM to PROTECT YOUR FREEDOMS.
Dr. BeardoPuff
But Jeff died out of uniform.
Dr. BeardoPuff
The uniform killed him.
Dr. BeardoPuff
But he died out of uniform, and the army spent his entire sickness denying that it was his military service that is what killed him.
Dr. BeardoPuff
So. Today isn't for him.
Dr. BeardoPuff
And it's shit.
wefeelspooky
guy I went to high school with
wefeelspooky
enlisted right after graduation, also right after 9/11
wefeelspooky
got injured in iraq, now has chronic pain and disability
wefeelspooky
but the minute he stopped being able to murder brown people for the army, the army stopped caring about him
wefeelspooky
it sure is complete bullshit!
Dr. BeardoPuff
Kinda sucks, huh.