MindPilot (10,324 posts)
OK. I have serious reservations about doing this, but I'm going to come out here on DU.
I was raped.
It happened when I was in the Navy. A group of three or four threw a blanket over me pinned me down and used a mop handle. I never saw my attackers, had no idea who they were, but I got to spend the rest of my time at sea wondering if every face I saw on that ship was one of them.
No, I did not report it; it was 1972, and we were in combat. Reporting it would have probably made my life a thousand times worse.
It was more than twenty years before I told anybody.
Only question I have is: where was Seal Team Six at the time?Gee, how does MindPilot deal with the unimaginable pain? Why, the way all liberals deal with pain:
mzmolly (47,231 posts)
1. I'm so sorry.
Thank you for your courage in sharing your personal story.
I wish you could seek justice, somehow.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~ Frederick Douglass
Response to mzmolly (Reply #1)
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 09:05 PM
MindPilot (10,324 posts)
14. The VA sends me a check every month.
The Navy gave me a 10% disability, small consolation but at least I never have to worry about getting healthcare.
Probably not a day goes by that I don't wonder what became of them...karma and all.
Money fixes everything for a liberal.
In fact...
MindPilot: "Hey, Tom Wright...here's what you do: wait until bedtime, then take this broomstick and cram it up my ass. Then I can get disability, and I'll be set."
TominTib: "Sure...great plan!"
the next day...MindPilot: "Say, Tom, thanks! That was painful, but the wheels are in motion. You might want to clean that broom handle extra good, though."
TominTib: "Broom handle?"
MindPilot: "Yeah, the one you used to anally rape me."
TominTib: "Oh, yeah!
THAT broom handle!"