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Date Posted: Sun, Jun 29 2025, 14:54:12 PDT
Author: Don Poss
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Subject: Re: If Not
In reply to: Charles Penley, 377th SPS 's message, "Re: If Not" on Sat, Jun 21 2025, 8:54:48 PDT

Charles
I try not to be flippant about such serious things. Also, my writing and poetry tends to be a little dark sometimes, and I think that part followed me home from Da Nang.

About what I wrote, I often tag a short silique that I am melancholy about with something I feel veteran-deep about. In this heavy matter, I heard veterans allude to their state of being by saying such as, "...guess there's not much left but to buy a gun -- or eat a bullet. Such talk must be stopped at once because it is a red-flag; a step down the path potentially towards suicide. As you know. 21-22 veterans commit suicide daily... every single day. And that is not acceptable. And that is why I dropped the last sentence-tag in that direction of potential hopelessness that could buy a ticket in the daily line.
If you care about a Veteran saying such a red-flag you can point out he went through worse in Vietnam and there are brothers in Group at the VA that can help. Plant the seed.

Don Poss

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