The Price of War

The way I see it, if this is written up in the news, it is to show the trials and tributations of the bride, as well as how brave she is..with little telling of HIS story.

-axo

Would anyone like to take bets on how long this marriage will last? I give it max 5 years especially after a rad fem meal ticket, I mean a child is born. He will probably get a sizable monthly disability pension which the government will turn over at least half to HER after the divorce!

I don't like sounding like a pessimist but I have seen many marriages, like most do, soon ending in divorce and much to the advantage of the long suffering bride. If the government can order a dead man to pay child support they will have no mercy on this guy.

To marry a man who is so hideously deformed as a result of doing his manly duty.

How much pressure will it take from her girlfriends - fat from a steady diet of fem-pop culture - for her to decide she deserves better? I mean come on, look at him. Of course she deserves his pension for being the brave girl who married him but she also deserves a well off good looking man to satisfy her little girl fairy tale fantasies.

Or, many domestic violence public notices will it take her to realize that sometimes he gets angry - deservedly so after what he's obviously been through - to decide, even if he never once takes it out on her, that she's scared of his 'potential violence'? He is a marine, he's capable of violence. I can picture her using his scars as proof that he's abusive to her in court. And I can see an educated - in fem-nut theory - judge buying every word of it.

Even if she swears to the heavens now that she'd never do such a thing, if she has girlfriends, she has people pressuring her to do just that all the time. Plus every TV show tells her the same thing her girlfriends do, and all the girl blogs etc... how long until she caves under the constant nagging to take the feminist high road and clean out this poor soldier?

After all, just ask Mrs. Clinton - "Women are the real victims of war"

The photo reminds one of the classic story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, or perhaps Beauty and the Beast, or the Phantom of the Opera .... all tales that celebrate a disfigured man's sacrifice for women.

I've read that the Iraq war has been a great research experiment for battlefield surgery, because some 25,000 soldiers have been injured and survived horrific wounds that would have killed in Vietnam, and the rate of amputation of limbs and genitals has skyrocketed.

This is because the soldiers wear body armor that protects the chest (heart), but leaves everything else vulnerable to the IED's and roadside bombs that routinely blow off body parts without actually resulting in a mortal wound.

I'm shocked that this photo was even allowed to be published, unlike the 3,000 plus flag-drapped caskets that have been shipped back to America but cannot be documented in the mass media.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, one must ask why our democratic government is censoring pictures under penalty of law.

Can we give her the benefit of the doubt?

I don't think ANYONE does this sort of thing for a pat on the head.

She clearly loves the guy and is standing by her man.

Would that the rest of womankind do so, too.

BOTH should be commended on their bravery AND their commitment and love to each other.

When did we all become so cynical?

...at one point or another and been burned by it in the long run.

I am sure right now she loves him and thinks she can stand by her man and love conquers all and all that.

Then the world is going to step in, and her girlfriends will give her little nudges that she deserves better, and she'll see TV shows and magazines selling her what they believe the ideal husband should be etc...

No doubt like any married couple, they'll have disagreements to. And those disagreements will pile up like they do in seemingly all women, where she can instantly on a moments notice recall everything he's ever done to piss her off. Will she start to notice his scars more and more as time goes on in the way that so many women see their husbands differently over time as the issues pile up?

Or, is he maybe a little insecure now because of what he has been through? I know we should forgive him and help him to overcome those insecurities but how many women instead mock men's insecurities because they have been taught that's what you do when men are scared and insecure.

It's just easy to predict doom given the current state of marriage in general and given the way society treats it's war veteran's it's easy to see this poor young man having a tough go of it now. Will his bride stand by him and support him?

I hope so, but odds are against it.

She'll dial 911 and state to the DV goon assault squad operator ---

"I'm afraid of him."

Only four words need be spoken.

Then, another hero will be harvested.

That's what Chivalry is all about, right?

Yes, I am cynical, but look how miserable this woman looks on her wedding photo. If seen happier people on a mug shot photo.

anthony

that he was in the war (READ: he has committed violence in the past) and that he was deformed by battle (READ: he is unstable and not to be trusted)

None of those thing would have any relevance whatsoever to a 911 call for domestic violence, but females tend to target the weakest parts to hit him where it hurts the most almost reflexively.

It's sad how love can turn into war seemingly so easy

She is brave and does obviously love him very much, she should be commended. My particular post was more to make the point, of how screwed up the media is.
-axo