Thomas E. Mahany, a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, is staging a hunger strike in Lafayette Square across from the White House to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder and protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nothing weird about that. I applaud his efforts.
The weird part comes from not being able to find any media coverage about it. Google it and the closest you get to mainstream media is T R U T H O U T, and if you are at all familiar with T R U T H O U T, you know this online news source does not consider themselves to be mainstream whatsoever (about T R U T H O U T).
Mahany recently wrote a letter to President Obama calling on him to “withdraw our military men and women from the Middle East now.”
He said he plans to only drink water “until specific action is taken by your administration and our military to stem the tragic and ever-increasing rise in the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” that has seen a meteoric rise over the years among those serving in the military.
Mahany has been without food since Veterans Day. Why hasn’t the media given any coverage to this?
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