Army Tweets 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Gets Thousands of Responses About the Horrors of War
"My cousin committed suicide while on duty at the armory after coming home from a tour abroad."
On Friday, the United States Army asked Twitter users how the service impacted their lives, likely as part of a Memorial Day campaign.
The sad responses are a poignant and timely reminder of the toll of war. Appropriate for the holiday, but probably not what the Army P.R. team intended.
https://twitter.com/TheWhitneyBrown/status/1132217445152899072
My cousin Wes, has always been a little slow. He went into the Army as a mechanic. His fellow soldiers always made fun of him. He shot himself and lived while on deployment Iraq. The Army investigated it and proved Wes never should've been accepted much less sent into a war zone.
— D In Colorado ???? (@noble_darrin) May 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/skydovva/status/1132212940986126336
https://twitter.com/lacymjohnson/status/1132273031357902848
My mother was a Lt. and triage nurse in Vietnam. She's been a broken person for the last 50 years over the things she saw. In December, she killed herself with prescription pills.
— Ouchi (@JamMasterJake19) May 25, 2019
I am 23 years old and my mom still refuses to open up about her experiences in Desert Storm. ???? it has closed her off to emotion and affected our relationship more than you know.
— danika???????????? (@danika_renee14) May 25, 2019
My Grandfather was drafted from Puerto Rico against his will and taken to Korea to fight a war for the USA and when he didn't want to kill ppl that didn't do anything to him he was thrown in jail.
— Elon Fraudsk (@F_G_R_V) May 25, 2019
Didn't serve, did pro bono legal work for veterans bc laws don't let them hire attorneys to rep them in VA issues. Had a PTSD case, not from war but from being raped by other men. I realized reality of govt neglect despite "support our troops" propamantra
— Salaam Bhatti (@salaam) May 25, 2019
lemme think
I didn't serve but my brother did
he never went to war but still shot himself in the head so— penni. shiny and new (@Pennijj) May 24, 2019
My dad, a Vietnam veteran, can no longer function without being stoned. He is terrified of crowds, loud noises, and strangers.
— grass toucher, sunshine enjoyer ???????? ???????? (@Katchin05) May 25, 2019
I'm a social worker on a hospice residential unit. I have a pt who is a Vietnam vet. There are signs posted EVERYWHERE warning staff to leave him alone when he's asleep; and to NOT be within striking distance if we do have to wake him up, lest his PTSD gets triggered.
— Pam Adams ???? ✊ ???? (@TarHeelInNYC) May 25, 2019
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