Iraq Veteran wanted ashes scattered in Iraq before suicide

There are not many sites I trust on Facebook. Facebook 22 Too Many is one I have no doubts about. I was just updating Veterans Wounded Times when I spotted this from 22 Too Many.

Horror Of PTSD Puts One Marine Mom On A Mission Of Mercy "Brandon told his mother, ominously, that when he died, he wanted his dust scattered in Iraq, because he had already died there anyway."

"Brandon Meyers, a Marine with all the right “Semper Fi” stuff and with two tours of war to his credit, “this whole dream that he had became a nightmare,” said Wendy."

We can talk all we want about veterans and what is happening to them because the VA was not able to take care of all our veterans, but that avoids talking about the simple fact that not all of our over 22 million veterans go to the VA. We can talk all we want about how PTSD veterans do not get treated on time and how 43% do not seek help for it from the VA before committing suicide, but that avoids talking about how 57% committed suicide after seeking help. We can talk about how the VA was not prepared to treat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, but then we avoid talking about how they were not prepared after the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea, WWII and WWI.

We can talk about the failures of President after President but then we avoid talking about how congress has failed to do their jobs for decades.

We manage to avoid talking about so much but the biggest thing we will not talk about is how we have allowed all of this to happen over and over again.

Brandon ended his pain with a bullet into his head. Over 21 others died that day by their own hands because we let all of this happen.