Suicide matters to Michelle Malkin, but not when it involves the troops

When I received a heads up on a new article from Michelle Malkin I may be interested in, I paused before going to the link. What could she possibly say that would interest me? My gut instinct was right and should have just avoided it. I ended up very angry.

How is it that the "right" always seem to be so outraged when women have abortions but never, ever contemplate the suicides of our veterans. They never seem to be willing to acknowledge one single needles death when it comes to them.

This is just one more case of them not being willing to really stand up for the troops and our veterans. They could join in the effort to have all our veterans treated for PTSD and cared for in the manner this nation should finally be willing to do, but they don't. Yet Malkin managed to add in the terms AWOL and MIA. These are military terms for Absent Without Leave and Missing in Action. When it comes to our wounded warriors, she couldn't have picked better terms to describe their neglect.

I cannot remember a single time I visited any of their sites and found something worthy of posting. There has been virtually no information they provide that has any value to what should really matter to everyone in this country. Why is that? I keep asking and receive absolutely no explanation at all. Why can't they live up to their claims of being all about supporting the troops when the troops need them? Why can't they cross over the line of wanting to defend Bush when the troops suffer from his neglect? Does anyone have any thoughts on this at all?

February 27, 2008
The Suicide of Emma Beck and Silence No More
By Michelle Malkin

She didn't have to die. And neither did her unborn children. Over the weekend, London newspapers reported on the 2007 suicide of 30-year-old Emma Beck, a young British artist who hung herself after the abortion of her twin babies. Perhaps the retelling of her suffering can prevent more needless deaths.

The agony and loneliness in Emma Beck's suicide note resonate across the pond, across racial and class lines, across generations. She was distraught over a breakup with her boyfriend, who didn't want the children. She was suffering intense grief from her decision to end the lives inside her. And so she ended her own.

"I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum," Beck wrote. "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies -- they need me, no one else does."

But it's not just jaded abortion providers and medical assistants, AWOL counselors and MIA parents who need to look in the mirror.

go here for the rest

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/the_suicide_of_emma_beck_and_s.html

We have thousands committing suicide because of PTSD, yet these "pro-life" people want to ignore the living, breathing, suffering so hopeless that they cannot find the strength to go on one more day without relief. All these veterans need is compassion enough to reach out a hand to help them heal, yet the "right" ignore them. Worse, they attack media reports regarding the needless suffering of our men and women in uniform serving this nation. What will it take to get them involved in any of this? What will it take people like O'Reilly and Hannity and Coulter to actually join the fight for the sake of the troops that has absolutely nothing to do with being for or against the occupation of Iraq? The troops will one day leave Iraq but they will not leave Iraq behind them. They will not leave Afghanistan behind them any more than they left Vietnam or the Gulf War behind them or any combat. This will take every ounce of dedication and courage the people of this nation can find to fight for them.

PTSD has nothing to do with a political affiliation, believing in the mission or not, being from a "blue state" or a "red state" or any type of religious institution. It has to do with being a human exposed to traumatic events. Combat is the form that cuts the deepest, but police and firefighters, emergency responders, crime victims, survivors of natures fury, all experience PTSD. What will it take for these people to actually start acting like members of the human family?