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I was at a McDonalds and there was a younger person there dressed as a soldier, with a knapsack, and two flags on small poles on each side. He also was talking about 22 veterans committing suicide each day and also for donations. He said, he was trying to raise awareness. What is your take?
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Suicide
Posted >1 y ago
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The young person's cause - increasing awareness about veterans suicides is laudable- the area that he was doing it in, i.e. McDonald's doesn't really pass the 'sniff test'... As we saw in the past week, a guy who ran a charity that was supposed to have been helping Navy veterans was convicted of fraudulently using the $100M USD for his own benefit...
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He had no organization to authorize him to receive donations, he lied there are about an estimated 55 taking their lives each day, as long as there was no rank,unit ID or name on the uniform(stuff he could have bought from a surplus store),was it a BDU or newer type uniform? If it was a BDU uniform (woodland camo) it was phased out. The new one is the digi cam type. Other than the uniform maybe it was an attempt to probably take money from others or scamming them.
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My concerns are similar to those of SPC Basom. I firmly believe that we (the military) have endured and will continue to endure the unnecessary loss of some of people through suicide. It is problem we must address, but that response will come from professional organizations with the appropriate training, background and resources. Not from a kid at Mickey Ds.
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