Veterans are a Suicide Time Bomb

Britain's traumatised war veterans are a suicide time bomb, SAS legend Andy McNab warned last night. He insists the NHS is incapable of helping heroes with post-traumatic stress.
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(RG) sadly this is the truth over 300 of the men I served with in the Falklands War have taken their own lives. Did you know that each year an average of ten Falklands veterans commit suicide, this means that more soldiers have killed themselves since the end of that war than the fewer than two hundred and fifty eight who died during it. (Source: Times cover story 12/11/02)

A high profile SAS soldier like McNab is right to bring this up especially now that many of our young men and woman are at War. Like McNab I have lost a friend and fellow Falklands veteran that served on my Rapier in the Falklands due to PTSD Mickey Quinn

I must admit that over the years I have seriously considered taking my own life, but it is the thought of the tears on my Children’s faces that have stopped me. The last time I felt that I could not go on was after enduring a Veterans Agency medical, you can read about my disgusting treatment Here
I am in no doubt that medicals of this nature are contributing to many more deaths of veterans. These medicals I believe are carried out by contractors who are paid on a bonus if they can reduce a veterans percentage. The doctor who interrogated me had no idea of the number of suicides by Falklands veterans. I was made to feel so low and a burden on my country that the doctor may as well have given me a gun and told me to go and end it all. I urge all other veterans to try and bring someone along with them to these medicals be it War pension or DSS, as the doctors in question will just say we were lying or over reacting. The good thing is I am a fighter and the pen is mightier than the sword and if we all stick together we can fight for better treatment of Britain’s War Heroes.
Here are some poems I wrote whilst contemplating death.

Deaths just around the corner
I can see his scythe
No surprises, he’s here at my invitation
I’ve had a bellyful of this earthly sentence
The `Pull yourself together` crowd
Make me puke
`Yes, Yes, Yes, I know
Pull the slide back
Safety off, ha ha!!
Where to Mr Reaper?

“BANG”





I’ve found the solution to this disease in my mind

Its at the end of a phone call its all gunna stop

Gunna order me up some death by cop

Like a pizza delivery here comes the boys in blue

Them boys are locked and loaded

They know just what to do

Sorry kids sorry mama sorry papa its got to stop

Here comes the sirens and lights with my death by cop

Those 5.56 will rip my spleen its so obscene

Oh yippee do its whop whop Whop

The armed police by air with death by cop

Put me down like a dog

Put me down like a hog

Please make it stop motherfuckers

Its my death by cop.


A murder of crows lands by the landfill site
I know the meaning of life
Smiling I feel slightly foolish
“What’s your problem?” I giggle to a crow
Energised beyond belief
Adrenaline surge
The 9mm Browning feels cold to touch
Staring at the hand I wonder if it knows how to use it
The knuckles are hairy
White mark totally gone from the wedding finger
I’m now in love with something beyond the boundaries of this world
Don’t fuck with the safety you idiot
Ha Ha Ha
Keep the weapon pointed down the range
Or inside your mouth
One of the crows looks my way
Can he see my gun?
Do crows ever commit suicide?
Your all collectively repulsive to me
I am part of the bacteria of human filth
But I’m happy truly happy for the first time in my life






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© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
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