I never had any interest in seeing the movie Stop-Loss.  I didn’t know what stop-loss meant and I wasn’t interested in finding out until I came across a newspaper article in the Ogden Standard Examiner a few weeks ago.  The article was about a serviceman who was in Iraq and his experiences.  To summarize in the best way I can remember, the serviceman was in a vehicle driving along with some others and they hit a mine.  The blast knocked him out and he had been hurt so badly that he was flown to a hospital in Germany.  While he was there he found out that one of his eardrums had been blown out and that he had some brain damage.  The doctor told him that he was not to be around any loud noises and that he was not going back to Iraq.

Days or weeks later another military doctor came to see him and signed him off to return to the fight.  He can’t hear out of one ear, he is brain damaged, and they are forcing him to go back into the war.  I thought this was horrible, but the article just got worse.  He was supposed to be done with his tour in August, but because he got hurt and had to have months of rehabilitation the government is sending him back, brain damaged and all, to make up for the time he was in the hospital.  Stop-loss is the most ridiculous policy I have ever heard of.  This is just one straw in the bale of corruption that our government lives by everyday.