Soldier's suicide note goes viral; family demands better for veterans

Article here. He asks in his note, basically, why doesn't the gov't seem to care much? He then answers by saying it's because the system is set up to dehumanize those in it anyway. Well, I think he was partly right. "The system" is set up to presume those going into it are men, and thus already dehumanized. And as for why there are no policy initiatives, the answer's obvious: the primary sufferers of such things as PTSD and suicide are men. If they were women, believe me, you'd see action. Excerpt:

'His note gives readers a clear understanding of what it's like to suffer from crippling depression and war-related psychosis. It also slams the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which he characterized as careless.

"My body has become nothing but a cage, a source of pain and constant problems. The illness I have has caused me pain that not even the strongest medicines could dull, and there is no cure," Somers wrote in his note.

"All day, every day a screaming agony in every nerve ending in my body. It is nothing short of torture. My mind is a wasteland, filled with visions of incredible horror, unceasing depression, and crippling anxiety."
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He joined the Army for the same reasons many others do: he wanted to provide for his family. He and his wife had dreams of one day leaving Arizona, and moving to a cooler climate -- maybe Seattle.
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"Is it any wonder then that the latest figures show 22 veterans killing themselves each day? That is more veterans than children killed at Sandy Hook, every single day," he wrote.

"Where are the huge policy initiatives? Why isn't the president standing with those families at the state of the union? Perhaps because we were not killed by a single lunatic, but rather by his own system of dehumanization, neglect, and indifference."'