When The Truth Becomes Unacceptable

From: Mike Hastie
To: Military Resistance
Sent: August 04, 2010

Photograph by Mike Hastie, U.S. Global Empire

The worst thing I experienced in Vietnam was the lie.
100% of the Vietnam War was an absolute lie.
100% of the Iraq War is an absolute lie.
100% of the Afghanistan War is an absolute lie.
When an active duty soldier or a veteran puts
a gun to his head, and blows his brains out,
he is putting a bullet in America's head.
(I saw that happen in Vietnam.)
You kill the lie!
You kill the conflict that is unbearable.
Whenever the truth threatens one's belief system,
and the lie out weighs your ability to cope, you pull the trigger.
Instead of putting the American flag over the casket,
they ought to put the American flag in the casket with the body, because they both died.

Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71

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