I think it is a real shame that we have lost so many soldiers lives to the war and their deaths were at their own hands. It is one thing to have losses at the hands of the enemies, but to put these soldiers into the war for such reasons as oil and power is absurd. I am proud of them for doing what our leaders tell them to, but when will it ever stop. My sophomore year second semester a returning soldier came to live in the apartment house i was living in at the time. We became very good friends. Towards the end of the semester his personality started to change. Then i realized with all the drinking and smoking and erratic behavior he was probably ptsd. Then after one serious incident i was able to talk to him about what he had been through. He couldn't even tell me most of it because it was too stressful for him. It was very sad to see him in that state of mind. I had fears of him hurting people in the house and himself. In the long run these defensive wars that our country keeps going into are completely necessary. There are to many people in the world for earth to sustain life, competition for resources is a natural way of life. But maybe there is a better way to go about how we train our soldiers mentally in this new age of warfare. If we can stop neglecting the issues presented at home and deal with them maybe the outcome of the process will change for the better and save the lives of our soldiers.

My high school had 6 pregnant girls my senior year and i thought that was absurd. But this is mind blowing. Why don't these girls have birth control? Or why are they dumb enough to think that a high school boy would be able to pull out if he doesn't have a a condom? In my opinion sex in high school is ok, but clearly they are not being properly educated about it. If they are all told not to do it no questions asked, they are more likely to do it anyway. The culture down there has to be one of those invisible strings that has effected the mindset of the high school students into just having sex because they were told not to. The consequences of their actions were probably not fully explained to them. This is a direct result of certain educational mindsets that say abstinence is the only way. This may have been avoided if the invisible string was saying yes abstinence, but if you choose to have sex then this is what you need to do or else a, b, and c, will happen. The community is trying to get money for the students to help out. Why wouldn't they take that money and use it to get these girls some birth control? There are a lot of girls at that school im sure the percentage of the girls who are having unprotected sex is far higher then just that 11 %, but they got lucky and didn't get pregnant. These students could be caught in a group think as result of the strings pulling on them. The cool thing to do in all their minds is have sex against the wishes of there the culture. So even the strings within the school coming from the other students is effecting the outcome of their decisions. Its not that they all want to be pregnant, but they all chose to have unprotected sex against their school, parents, culture, and probably their own better judgments. So just like the rest of us they are not free and they are paying the penalty of their unwilling actions.

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