The day before Halloween 2008, Army Pvt. Adam Lieberman swallowed handfuls of prescription pain pills and psychotropic drugs. Then he picked up a can of black paint and smeared onto the wall of his room in the Fort Carson barracks what he thought would be his last words to the world.
“I FACED THE ENEMY AND LIVED!” Lieberman painted on the wall in big, black letters. “IT WAS THE DEATH DEALERS THAT TOOK MY LIFE!”
Soldiers called Lieberman’s unit, the 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, the Death Dealers. Adam suffered serious mental health problems after a year of combat in Iraq. The Army, however, blamed his problems on a personality disorder, anxiety disorder or alcohol abuse — anything but the war. Instead of receiving treatment from the Army for his war-related problems, Adam faced something more akin to harassment. He was punished and demoted for his bad behavior, but not treated effectively for its cause. The Army’s fervent tough-guy atmosphere discouraged Adam from seeking help. Eventually he saw no other way out. Now, in what was to be his last message, he pointed the finger at the Army for his death.
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“You know,” [Lieberman's mother] fired at Phelps, “I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that my son is being charged with defacing government property and you people are more concerned about your wall than my son,” she stammered. Then she threatened, half jokingly, “I will paint that wall and make this stupidity go away.”A pause, and then Phelps snapped, “We’ll contact supply and have them bring you the matching paint.”
And so, the Army allowed a mother to paint over her son’s suicide note. Heidi’s handicapped sister helped.
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Just before Christmas, MPs fingerprinted and booked Adam for defacing government property.
They should have had Halliburton paint over it while Blackwater guarded the place, guns cocked and ready to pepper anyone who looked at them cross eyed.
At least that way a 2 dollar paint job would have cost the taxpayers 200,000 smackers.
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Paddy-twat
We don’t fight wars because we aren’t DICKS!
# 22 jimbo said, “We don’t fight wars because we aren’t DICKS!”
Oh! I thought it was because of being drunk all the time. Hmmm.
God you are thick…get that from your cartoons?
We’re descended from vikings…the original warbringers…
You’re a bastard mix of all the crap that couldn’t make it anywhere else but in a place with more likewise crap.
Without Cartoon Network news paddy i fear you would be unable to post on this site.
Do you get CN in your company CEO/Army general/Flight technician/Senators office?
Still waiting on proof that you conducted urban combat ops….starting to think you’re bullsh**ting everyone…..but let me guess, you’ll ignore this paragraph and talk about taking me taking meds/being an idiot/not recognising sources or maybe you’ll just respond with those horrible net abbreviations you love so much…..
“ROFL” – come on now paddy, you have to be a fu*king moron to use those…and they aren’t easier, they just make you look like a badly educated American.
# 24 jimbo said, “We’re descended from vikings…the original warbringers…”
Uh huh… ROFL
“The genetic evidence shows that a large proportion of Irish Celts, on both the male and female side, did arrive from Iberia at or about the same time as farming reached the Isles.
The historical Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe. Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age in Central Europe (Hallstatt period, named for the site in present-day Austria). By the later Iron Age (La Tène period), Celts had expanded over a wide range of lands: as far west as Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula…”
you ignored it again paddy-child
and you have not backed up your claim.
So by refusing to answer the afformentioned challenge to prove your qualifications you have effectively proved to me and everyone else that you were lying.
Dumb american, always ready argue your point, but never willing to prove it
# 26 jimbo said, “and you have not backed up your claim.”
What claim are babbling about?
“# 76 Paddy-O said, on January 15th, 2009 at 11:18 am
# 69 Nihility said, “It definately was not used for smoke cover, far too much of it.
Apparently, you know nothing about conducting urban combat operations…”
and you do?
If i had the time, there are about 6 other posts on this blog where you claim to be a CEO amongst other things.
ALSO
# 25 Paddy-O said, on February 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am # 24 jimbo said, “We’re descended from vikings…the original warbringers…”
Uh huh… ROFL
“The genetic evidence shows that a large proportion of Irish Celts, on both the male and female side, did arrive from Iberia at or about the same time as farming reached the Isles.
The historical Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe. Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age in Central Europe (Hallstatt period, named for the site in present-day Austria). By the later Iron Age (La Tène period), Celts had expanded over a wide range of lands: as far west as Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula…”
did you pull that one out of your ass too? Because you sure as hell didn’t post a link or reference the source.
Also, as for my #24, your claim is that a “large proportion” of the pop. is not decended from Vikings, wheras I didn’t specify. Therefore it is perfectly correct for me to post that we are descended from vikings, as they did land here, did take irish wives, did have children here and did create a lineage.
http://www.ncte.ie/viking/vikage.htm
tells you a little about what happened
# 28 jimbo said, “# 69 Nihility said, “It definately was not used for smoke cover, far too much of it.
Apparently, you know nothing about conducting urban combat operations…””
So? What’s wrong with the post?
# 29 jimbo said, “wheras I didn’t specify. ”
Of course you didn’t. You don’t have a clue as to the origin of the Irish. How could you be specific about something you know nothing about?