Amanda
26th May 2019, 05:56 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-26/army-virtue-tweet-backfires-1000s-expose-heartbreaking-horrors-war
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-us-army-asked-twitter-how-service-has-impacted-people-the-answers-were-gut-wrenching-a28442c59e4f)
After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself “as a man and a warrior”, the US Army tweeted (https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785), “How has serving impacted you?”
As of this writing, the post has over 9,600 responses. Most of them are heartbreaking.
“My daughter was raped while in the army,” said one responder. “They took her to the hospital where an all male staff tried to convince her to give the guy a break because it would ruin his life. She persisted. Wouldn’t back down. Did a tour in Iraq. Now suffers from PTSD.”
“I’ve had the same nightmare almost every night for the past 15 years,”said another.
Tweet after tweet after tweet, people used the opportunity that the Army had inadvertently given them to describe how they or their loved one had been chewed up and spit out by a war machine that never cared about them.
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The rest of the article includes some of the responses from those who have served. You can just read them here:
https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785
Interestingly, I was over in the comments section at the zerohedge article, and it there were tons of JIDF over there (much more than usual). Definitely gave me the sense that the Israeli's are highly invested in making sure the American people are pro-war (afterall, they want more goyim ready to fight wars for israhell).
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-us-army-asked-twitter-how-service-has-impacted-people-the-answers-were-gut-wrenching-a28442c59e4f)
After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself “as a man and a warrior”, the US Army tweeted (https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785), “How has serving impacted you?”
As of this writing, the post has over 9,600 responses. Most of them are heartbreaking.
“My daughter was raped while in the army,” said one responder. “They took her to the hospital where an all male staff tried to convince her to give the guy a break because it would ruin his life. She persisted. Wouldn’t back down. Did a tour in Iraq. Now suffers from PTSD.”
“I’ve had the same nightmare almost every night for the past 15 years,”said another.
Tweet after tweet after tweet, people used the opportunity that the Army had inadvertently given them to describe how they or their loved one had been chewed up and spit out by a war machine that never cared about them.
...........
The rest of the article includes some of the responses from those who have served. You can just read them here:
https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785
Interestingly, I was over in the comments section at the zerohedge article, and it there were tons of JIDF over there (much more than usual). Definitely gave me the sense that the Israeli's are highly invested in making sure the American people are pro-war (afterall, they want more goyim ready to fight wars for israhell).