Military health system questioned after soldiers' deaths
Questions are being asked about the Canadian military's capacity to help soldiers and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, after four soldiers died from apparent suicides in a time span of less than two weeks.
All four soldiers had served in Afghanistan. It is not known if all of them suffered from PTSD,
"There is no question. The government needs to urgently act upon this," said NDP veterans affairs critic Peter Stoffer in an interview with CBC News.
Stoffer said the Conservative government must make immediate changes to the way the military deals with soldiers who have PTSD.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-health-system-questioned-after-soldiers-deaths-1.2450708
You can take your "Highway of Tears" and your heroes, including the Steve's 1812 ghosts and other armchair heroes. The end has come. We are not holding up the torch!
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields
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