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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117100404790375036
on this #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay i share with you my baby brother’s last dying wish:
❝ DON'T LET OUR KIDS JOIN ❞
and by join, he meant the US military.
he wasn't even in combat. he was part of the munitions and cleanup crews, exposed to deadly toxins AFTER the war. he died of what his oncologists called OPERATION DESERT STORM CANCERS. not one, not two but different systemic cancers that are still, slowly killing those veterans.
Frank was my Puerto Rican twin.
may he rest in power.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/117099959603583700
USMIL veterans who were never radicalized against the USMIL are examples of survivor bias ―and they are in the minority.
if you have a veteran who never talks about their service, they most likely regret it, but are afraid to talk & lose their VA benefits
TALK TO THEM
my brother died of the mutiple cancers of “Operation Desert Storm”. before he died, he spent years in Puerto Rico, as part of Veterans for Peace, talking kids OUT of joining.
USMIL isn't a pathway out of poverty.
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