{"id":574,"date":"2021-04-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godspeaks2you.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:36:30","slug":"why-soldier-suicide-culture-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliascottcree.com\/why-soldier-suicide-culture-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soldier Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Bill &amp; Gloria Gaither - A Few Good Men [Live]\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ygfbt_4pgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>What God Needs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As thousands of soldiers waited in New York City in 1943 for the troop transports for Europe they saw the rousingly popular musical <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> and got one last taste of American life, often to die on D Day the following June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those soldiers knew what they were dying for \u2013\u201cwind sweeping down the plain,\u201d for carnivals, and romances and grandma&#8217;s apple pies at the state fair. They were dying so a nation enduring two theaters of war would survive, for little churches which preach God and country and faithfulness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They expected to come home \u2013 many did not. They had hope in their future and confidence that their service would preserve their homeland. They expected the girl they left behind to be there for them. And so did she.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why that soldier no long exists<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That soldier no longer exists \u2013 but he still goes off to war, and he comes back \u2013 and kills himself? Why? The answer is almost too easy. It is not simply because the family farm has been sold, the state fair is mostly auto shows, the church has been preaching diversity and his parents are divorced. That is bad enough in itself. But the man himself, just a boy really, has no roots in real America. His moral judgment has been tarnished by a wanton and indifferent culture, by teachers who praise marginal students, by gutless courses, and paper mache theologies. The man with roots in the real America is not there any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">False gods instill confidence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But he goes to Afghanistan and finds a culture that is supremely confident in itself\u2026 a male enemy and his religion that not only have open contempt for law and order, but also women and family, an \u201calpha\u201d male society based on the scruffiest principles of overblown ego and violence. He has a new male model for himself. He is in awe of men who can kill a woman at will, or lock little girls in a school and then burn it down. Violence in the home is common, even applauded. This is power! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the clash of Muslim-American culture, he is co-opted and returns a totally different person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modern America has changed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The sweet little thing he married leaving two children to rear has been running her own show for a year or more. Her authoritarian ways, her final decisions, her paying the bills, discipline, repairing the car \u2013 what happened to his male headship \u2013 out the window! The romance of being an alpha Muslim male which he picked up in the violence drenched desert takes over. Bang \u2013 the kids are dead, or his wife, or in final frustration, he copies the Muslim model of worship of suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a trained killer, after all, and he kills himself hardly realizing that suicide is a public confession of failure. Like Hitler. He is a now one-more-sacrifice to a foreign god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Foreign gods are powerful, and evil<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1980s a revealing PSTD study of Vietnam Veterans and female rape victims showed their trauma and symptoms to be identical. The study put the two groups together in a successful therapy. The main trauma was betrayal- the woman betrayed by a trusted male and the soldier betrayed by a slothful government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Betrayal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s soldier has no more trust in an appeasement-government than the soldier of the 60s. It is friendly political fire to disarm the soldier in the presence of live ammo and committed foreign foes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The battered wife in Dayton, Ohio has a better chance of survival in a half-way house with her kids protected by agencies and police than guys in Fallujah once did. No one had their back! But if he takes on the coloring, the morals, the standards of the death-obsessed Muslim, he has a new identity and possibly survival. He regains a sense of self, however false and unworkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Study American history and values<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempting to correct this after he returns is a mammoth job when it could be more easily addressed before he ever goes. Despite the sincere efforts of the armed forces bureaucracy to bring \u201creadjustment\u2019\u201d the results are minimal because the effort is at the end, not the beginning of the deterioration process. They must learn that their Western God is not dead &#8211; He\u2019s not even sleeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not complicated. Train the warriors in American values, constitution and morals before they face the enemy as victims, not later. If young soldiers do not know who they are to begin with how can they be restored to a place that never was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solders need a moral foundation based on clear-cut historical reality so the man who fights in 2012 is as well prepared to face his enemies as the man of 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Correction must come from the top<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps with a new President who values and encourages the armed forces things will change and soldier will again take pride in what they are doing and why.<br> {PTSD \u2013 post-traumatic stress disorder.}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoy these articles please subscribe and then honor us with comments.\u00a0 We provide Think Pieces for a public on the brink of mammoth changes and we need all hands-on deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9CorneliaScottCree.com. 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