Jared Hagemann's Tragic Stand Against Our Endless Wars

Soldier kills self rather than face 9th deployment

"No way that any God would forgive him" for what he has seen and done

Ashley says her husband Jared tried to come to grips with what he'd seen and done on his eight deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"And there's no way that any God would forgive him - that he was going to hell," says Ashley. "He couldn't live with that any more."

I understand that progressives and neoconservatives alike will not shed a tear for the dozens of brown-skinned Muslims that are dying everyday in their name (the stage collapse in the Indiana State Fair is garnering more coverage on CNN than the six deaths and 60 wounded that occurred this weekend all across Iraq), but at least they are still moved by the deaths of their own combat troops.

Of course, the connection between soldiers being sent to brutalize and kill foreigners, and the massive psychological damage it incurs within those that must carry out this gruesome task seems lost to the American people. Or else they will not be so eager to send their young people to war.

We do not know what kind horrors Jared Hagemann must have seen in his eight deployments to the Middle East, except that he believed that "no way that any God would forgive him" for what he has seen and done. And that he took his life rather than continue to participate in this injustice.

This was Hagemann's antiwar protest, his tragic stand against our endless wars.

Cross-posted to Politics by Jayel Aheram.

Comments

[Breisterer]

But...but...he knew what he was getting into when he voluntarily signed up! Right? Oh...wait.

[Eric Parks]

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
- Siegfried Sassoon

[Ashley Joppa]

Thank you so much for helping my husbands fight for justice If anyone has questions please contact me I will continue Jared's wish of Making A Difference Even If For Only One Soldier
Please repost and share this link with others The Rangers have refused my husband a memorial I need everyone and anyones support to get him the respect that the army owes him
THANK U ALL SO MUCH
Ashley hagemann

[Anonymous Marine]

You are most welcome, Mrs. Hagemann. His death will not be in vain; I will always remember his story every time I despair and think about giving up my antiwar activism.

Please feel free to contact me at [email protected]