Two kinds of goodbye

Roham21 · 1 day

The top cause of death in the US military is suicide.

Fr87 · 1 day

This picture's insanely old, isn't it? Just look at the BDUs that the man is wearing.

UnknownArchive · 1 day

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Years later, and this remains the most powerful image I've ever seen.	897^coms	1411^pts	4^mos	pics
Makes me think of my brother who joined the military one year and two months ago. I love you, Riley.	92^coms	195^pts	1^yr	pics

source: karmadecay

mamba_79 · 1 day

I hope my kids have the same love and passion for one another - equally, I hope they are never separated like this. I've not lost a friend or a child to war, but this hurts...it hurts bad.

solarpoweredatheist · 1 day

Aww, I was wondering if this was going to be reposted this week.

Fhom · 1 day

Everytime, it makes me wonder when the americans will learn to drop their love for the military.

Edit : since this is apparently going to be the top comment and hate thread, let me quote this by user LeszekSwirski for you :

I agree. If you don't want to die, don't want to kill, don't want your loved ones to cry at your early funeral, then don't join the armed forces. I appreciate that a country needs an army (though not one of the scale that America has), but I don't understand who would join it when the country's borders are safe, except the brainwashed, the desperate, and the psychopathic.

Mindgate · 2012-10-25T08:36:44+00:00

I am by no means an expert, but in my opinion the whole military complex in the US is also a huge catch net for poor people. If you have no education and no money and no food, join the military and they take care of you.

Unfortunately you also get to see combat. In most other countries those two (military and a chance for poor, uneducated people) are already separated.

So I kinda see the reason to join the military in the US, but the disadvantages are mainly being disabled or dead.

JDaRipper · 1 day

Why do young guys join the army ? Serious question

rockpoodle · 2012-10-25T08:18:19+00:00

This subreddit has turned into fucking facebook.

cuppincayk · 2012-10-25T08:16:46+00:00

Okay, I'm just getting a little tired of seeing this picture. First of all, it is old, second of all, people voluntarily join the military. There isn't a draft. There hasn't been one since Vietnam. Yes, it's tragic that his brother died, but he volunteered for this knowing the risks.

hunajavehje · 2012-10-25T09:29:09+00:00

No one forces you to go there?

evillozer · 1 day

Volunteer Army.

Konnoryuu · 1 day

Wow, to think all I would have to do is repost something from imgur's top images to make the front page and get free karma.

Moertel · 2012-10-25T08:18:56+00:00

Why is /r/pics turning into my Facebook feed?

jkarlson · 1 day

this shit is like 100 years old

madamdepomp · 1 day

This hit me hard. My brother is on tour in Afghanistan and I never got to say goodbye to him because I'm away from home for college.

I hope I won't have to say goodbye to him when he comes back.

stuckinthepow · 1 day

War. What is it good for?

jabbaj7 · 1 day

we're fighting in somebody else's war

CodyHogan01 · 1 day

Well, fuck. It really is too bad that the government forced that guy to join the military and go to Iraq.

TowrsFallnPepleDyin · 2012-10-25T08:16:30+00:00

He should of thought of his family before you signed up to be a disposable pawn.

A_British_Gentleman · 1 day

Wow, I just hopped on Reddit to take 5, and this is top of my frontpage.

Now I'm sad.

spryes · 2012-10-25T08:25:48+00:00

Two kinds of propaganda

ftfy

redmachined · 1 day

End the wars.

Quarkiee · 2012-10-25T08:16:58+00:00

Fuck all these wars!

damosk · 2012-10-25T08:29:30+00:00

Two kinds of repost.

TwiggieStardust · 2012-10-25T08:31:37+00:00

And this can be easily prevented..

Kinglink · 2012-10-25T09:18:49+00:00

How about we have another picture, of a son saying good bye to his father, and the son crying learning that his father was killed by a drone strike....

The Afghanistan war's still on going, let's stop deceiving ourselves that it's suddenly right now that Americans aren't dying as much. If a Republican was in office, we wouldn't be able to stop hearing about the Drone strikes currently on going. But currently we're letting the Obama Administration get away with out commenting on us killing innocent foreign people and instead pretending this election is abortion, or big bird, while we let our commander in chief kill people.

Let's hold our elected officials accountable no matter if they are Democrat or Republican.

The fact that the "educated" people that were anti-war 4 years ago, have not protested in the last four years, or screamed for an end to murder just shows they are partisan. It's a shame that complaining about the war and murder was just a political tactic that will likely come back if Romney gets Elected, but remains hidden until that date. Fuck American Politics.

RichardSaunders · 2012-10-25T10:04:48+00:00

If your feelings are an overwhelming mix of sadness and rage, then our feelings are similar.

ttt1776 · 2012-10-25T10:45:55+00:00

Fuck Our Wars. This should have never happened.

Skooma420 · 2012-10-25T08:19:08+00:00

Does that kid even lift?

_Samiel_ · 2012-10-25T08:20:24+00:00

How many fucking times is this going to be reposted to make me sad all over again?

SamuelRAnger · 1 day

So wait... America still thinks having a huge army is in their favor? Shit, that became a running joke to the rest of the world in like 2006. You do not have the economy to support it, it is most likely a war of resources, since the terrorist threat has been taken care off, by killing all off the leaders (Except for one, that did not "show up on the radar" until all the others were assassinated, quite convenient if you ask me). I say like some US president once said: All those who vote in favor of war should be forced to enlist. Kind of puts things into perspective if you ask me.

bellinghamsters · 1 day

I was expecting something funny... Ouch.

AdaroTeiji · 1 day

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's a very powerful set of images that hits me every time. On the other hand, this feels like kind of underhanded way of reposting something that no one could downvote without feeling like terrible human beings

Belutak · 2012-10-25T08:53:02+00:00

if he didnt go to occupy foregin independent country he would probably be alive. not very polite to say something like this at this moment but i think it needs to be said more often in this kind of situations, it could save some lives

zarlanga · 1 day

He shouldnt have enlisted if he didnt want to die. captain hindsight out

Alexanderh86 · 1 day

Not this shit again.

permareddit · 1 day

This is just terrible...when will we ever learn.

YakobTheAwesome · 1 day

A post from Ultimate-Guitar. Interesting.

626 · 1 day

When there is no more money to be made, is when the military will be put to an end along with all the wars ...

the_frail · 2012-10-25T09:26:18+00:00

No, this made me cry, I lost a family member in Afghanistan. RIP

Kicker_Doomstah · 2012-10-25T09:31:08+00:00

Why was he in Iraq again? Is that his country?

vaselinepete · 2012-10-25T09:46:16+00:00

Here's the thing.

I see pictures like this and I feel like my heart will break. But, then my mind starts wandering...

The soldier should have prepared his/her family for the chance of death. Joining the army = going to war = risk of death. Of course, not every soldier goes to war, but most do. I think people need to give more thought to their families before they sign on the dotted line.

And there's the whole 'hero' thing.

Let's say a soldier isn't killed, but is injured, badly. The media will expect us to call them a hero. But are they?

Is getting hurt at work (in a job where potentially getting hurt is a daily thing) enough to make someone a hero?

If that soldier did something extraordinary and helped/saved other people, then fine, they ARE a hero. But a guy who steps on a mine, or gets hit by a bullet while doing the job they willingly signed up for, fully conscious that they will be putting themselves in danger? That's not heroism.

I know many of you will disagree with me, but I do find it galling that the media expects us to greet everyone who has ever put a uniform on, as a hero.

Support the soldiers, not the war.

SparkyDogPants · 1 day

Holy crap, I know that guy. I remember when this happened, I've never seen someone so heartbroken in their life :\

Raiyni · 2012-10-25T08:26:22+00:00

Old as fuck repost.

ifailallday · 2012-10-25T08:19:09+00:00

US needs to stop putting our nose to other countries business serious. I fully support our troops but I don't agree why they are sent to harms way.

Zhumanchu · 1 day

There need to be more juxtapositions like this. It's damn effective.

Cabinessenceking · 2012-10-25T09:21:14+00:00

Congrats America on sending this poor kid to his death for no reason. (downvote me plz nationalists)

conspiracy_thug · 1 day

heavy.

gbuuun · 2012-10-25T08:17:14+00:00

goddammit, karma whore is reposting old shit.

this was a great picture up until maybe the 5th time someone put it up...

TheKingLeonidas · 2012-10-25T08:27:52+00:00

These pictures probably won't have the same effect on you guys that they do on me, but they are still very powerful.

Holy shit this guy's a natural born redditor

evangelosg · 1 day

Having a brother, the second I looked at this I fell apart. War is the worst. *edit, thank you for sharing.

liveinmymind · 1 day

This is powerful stuff.

Sutekhseth · 2012-10-25T08:19:40+00:00

REPOST GET THIS SHIT OFF THE FRONT PAGE.

djdule · 2012-10-25T08:29:10+00:00

Please do not get me wrong, death of a human being is horrible. But he was deployed with army, which means he went to war, to kill or be killed. People should stop serving in military.

BrutallyHonestDude · 2012-10-25T08:26:44+00:00

Old rich men declare war while young men die.

yhelothere · 2012-10-25T08:35:01+00:00

not that shit again

camy-vedder · 2012-10-25T08:46:07+00:00

War is pointless

Lekkers · 1 day

Pow. Right in the feels.

sscrofulous · 1 day

George Bush and his cronies should be in The Hague, those motherfuckers. This is heartbreaking.

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