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‘We send these kids off to war — we make them see things people otherwise wouldn’t have to see. Then we expect them to come back and behave like the rest of us. It’s breaking my heart.’ (via Heartbreaking Photos Of A Troubled Iraq War Veteran Win Pulitzer Prize)

Oh, God.  Heartbreaking doesn’t begin to describe it.  God.  What are we doing to these kids?  This on the tail of a report that 1 out of every 4 deaths of American soldiers are due to suicide.  I just… *helpless hands*

(Source: brianafahey, via in-our-summer-skin)

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nothing ever changes.

“There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of division that rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers to one another, than if they were actually in two different nations… A furious party-spirit, when it rages in its full violence, exerts itself in civil war and bloodshed; and when it is under its greatest restraints naturally breaks out in falsehood, detraction, calumny, and a partial administration of justice.  In a word, it fills a nation with spleen and rancour, and extinguishes all the seeds of good-nature, compassion and humanity.”

—-Joseph Addison, Spectator No. 125, July 1711

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