They All Should Come Home!

We ask our volunteer Warriors to reinvent themselves when they raise thier right hand and say I will.  After they are no longer able to serve, they are sent home and they are required to reinvent themselves again.  Who are these warriors?  They are 18 to 30 years old usually.  Mostly males and are kids seeing things and being asked to do things that will get them thrown in jail back at home.  Our country is the best at training our Warriors to protect us.  If they get wounded or injured and can no longer serve, they are sent home.

Once at home, they recover to the best of their abilities physically.  What happens when night after night they can’t sleep, or won’t sleep because of the dreams they have.  They have seen things and experienced things we can’t imagine.  These kids are 19 and 20 years old in some cases.  What happens when they start having dark thoughts and possibly start thinking about suicide?  Sometimes they do what every 19 or 20 year old does, they get on Myspace or facebook and talk about it.  Remember, they are trained to live, but now they can’t handle the way they are living and haven’t completely reinvented themselves.

I was reading The Houston Chronicle online the other day and saw an article about the Veterans Administration doing a little out of the box thinking.  That’s right, the government getting it right.  What they are doing is monitoring online social media sites like facebook and myspace for veterans that might be having dark thoughts, or thinking of suicide.  When they see posts with these dark thoughts and red flags they are reaching out proactively with counseling and support to prevent dark things from happening.  Good job VA!

Take care of those who fight for us there so we don’t have to fight here!  We, as a country, must take care of our Warriors and their families that serve here at home.  Shame, Shame on us all, if we don’t!

I am Mark McIntyre, and I write about reinventing yourself. Not the kind of reinvention you get on a couch paying someone by the hour. The kind of reinvention you get, when you want to, or need to change your circumstances. On my foeggy pages at http://www.foeggy.com, I provide practical tools, tips, techniques and tactics, that a healthy balanced individual like you and I, can use to reinvent ourselves with. The best place to start is at the foeggy pages, and link to the blog from there. I hope you enjoy my twist on things, and that the tips I pass along are useful to you. If the foeggy tips are fun and useful to you, I hope you will come back often, and tell your friends about the foeggy pages at http://www.foeggy.com.