Brig. Gen. Stephen Townsend addressed the 101st Airborne Division with military brusqueness: Suicides at the post had spiked after soldiers started returning home from war, and this was unacceptable.
"It's bad for soldiers, it's bad for families, bad for your units, bad for this division and our Army and our country and it's got to stop now," he insisted. "Suicides on Fort Campbell have to stop now."
This is priceless. Joseph Heller couldn't have written a more surreal scene for Catch-22 than this serious, straight Washington Post article "Fort Campbell tries to stop soldier suicides".
It's been said that the problem with satire is that real life soon outstrips the absurd situations created by the satirist. We live in a world that is satire (or beyond satire), since a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court who did not believe in an activist interpretation of the 14th Amendment and believed in state's rights used an activist interpretation of the 14th Amendment to trump the rights of the state of Florida in order to elevate George W. Bush to the cat bird's seat of the Presidency.
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