Facing up to Stop Loss; it can't hold - it isn't holding. Put this topic into Presidential Debates
He said good bye to his family this weekend and goes back to Iraq for another extended (Stop Loss) deployment of 15 months (his second 15 month deployment). Although it is rumored to the families it will likely be 18 months. Yeah, that's right, he gets to Iraq and another stop loss is added to his existing stop loss...
new movie release Stop Loss Movie trailer [Note, NM, 12/20/07: For some reason, this particular YouTube video is causing Washblog's rss feed to fail. Here's the YouTube link.]
Enough - I can't watch my daughter's family implode. Strong as they are being, mother and 3 children left behind when he deploys again, using just our family experience as a microcosm illustration of what is happening to military families across the board; how can Congress and America expect them to buck up and bear it all again and again and again ....
If this sounds like a scream of anquish, it is...and if it doesn't sound like an anguished scream, it should. Words fail. I learned of the new StopLoss movie at a new forum website I was invited to join. It has a format like the one used at Daily Kos, a format mimicked here at Washblog. At the new VetVoice, you can read and comment on stories from other actual troops and military families. VetVoice, The Voice of America's 21st Century Patriots, a project of VoteVets.org. And a shout out of thanks to Brandon Friedman for making VetVoice forum happen. Some of you may recognize him from his diary stories at Daily Kos under his username The Angry Rakkasan. He recently began using his real name. He authored book newly published book, The War I Always Wanted, and is currently Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org.
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