anne jeanne kangas eng and military sexual trauma

there is a very high cost to war, american style: soldiers who rape other soldiers, and the ensuing trauma.
humans who kill other humans experience trauma.

my mom is a nurse at the veteran's administration in oregon dealing with the high rate of military sexual trauma (MST) and post traumatic stress (PTSD) from battlefield.  she has worked with vietnam vets since the seventies.
she supports wikileaks, and explained to me the reason bradley manning is denied his eyeglasses but for an hour a day is the sentiment that he might kill himself with them.  i would never imagine such a thing.

my mother's mother mary kangas sent a letter to the USA draft board explaining she would personally shoot the feet off her boys before she would allow them to go murder other people's babies in vietnam.

mary kangas, my namesake, was know for vitriol, an honorary black panther, supported migrant workers, the hungry.