I’ll tell you fellas something that’s been bothering me since late last night after I got some texts from another Marine in a private Marine FB Group. Kinda the reason I was looking for a beer after work today. Was actually a ‘toast’...to a young Brother Marine that I never met. He committed suicide. I know now many details after the fact...but they don’t make a damn now.
It’s a f’d up life we Marines share, make no bones about that. It was hard on me to read the texts last night. The wars have taken their fare share of fine young men and women while actively engaged and fighting, across all branches. When they come home and try to adapt to what is ‘normal, everyday life’...it can be a tough row to hoe.
I don’t like to put this post up...but if I nor anybody shared things like this, it can get a little swept under the rug. He fought for every damn one of us.
He left behind a wife and young daughter.
If you folks know of any Veteran struggling, if they give any clues...just listen to them...they speak the truth from their perspective, it’s what they know and how they are, trying to cope...just listen to them, talk to them, don’t be judgmental...if given the opportunity. You could be a game changer in many lives!
‘til Valhalla...Semper Fi!