This isn't a statement by some grown-up cussing out a teenager for lamenting that she's not popular.
This was a statement by a peacetime Signaleer to a war veteran in a Combat Arms MOS.
Let me be clear, here.... this is NOT how to treat fellow veterans. This is NOT helping anyone. This is someone who has had it comparitively easy telling someone who has been through Hell that they're "just being a pussy", and trying to make them seem like they had it worse.
I seriously want you all to let this sink in. Normally I wouldn't say a word to compare one person's trauma to another, but this all sounds like a fucking cakewalk compared to what I have seen and done in my life.
And the person who wrote this.... yeah, they're a complete and total sack of shit:
"Oh for god's sake. Every person on here has some kind of disability! I have had PTSD since 1986 from watching a fucking building fall down on 29 men, and spending 14 days digging them out, each find bringing the families out to se if it was their husband/son/dad. and that one lady...that one poor lady who did that walk 28 times. I've seen the results of drunk drivers, who kill people, and complain about their fucking broken toe. I have had 18 broken bones in my body NOT counting toes and fingers. every day is horrendously painful to get up. I suffer from a medical condition that is so debilitating that within SECONDS, knocks me to the ground, AND qualifies me for 100% disability.
In 1985, I fell FORTY FEET off a telephone pole, breaking two bones in my spine, and dislocating a shoulder. I spend exactly three weeks off work. I didn;t get the shoulder fixed permanently until 2009. all the time between, I suffered with 'a dead arm' every morning until the nerves and blood were working again. Yet every fucking day, I get up, I get dressed myself, I feed myself and I go to work at a job, where I spend 8 hours with other people who some have worse situations than I do. and you know what? THOUSANDS of other people do the same thing every damn day of their lives! how many friggin WW2 POW's came back, far more 'damaged', yet went to work, and raised families and held jobs and RETIRED from them without being a drain on society.And guess what? You never knew all that about me did you. No. you didn't. You know why? Because I don't spend all my days whining about how terrible my life is, on a social network site, to people I don't really know.
And I hate how you sit and whine about how you cannot work, but can work on and road race cars all day long. While another person in this group cannot even drive because of a disability, yet every damn day he gets up and gets himself to work.I'm sorry, I no longer think you are disabled. I think you are lazy, and afraid to try and push yourself. I think you take the easy way out, or make excuses to do so. And frankly< I think you really need to look deep inside and re-evaluate how you cause yourself many of your own issues!"
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