Soldier uses MySpace to say goodbye
Apparent suicide note was posted a day before he
was found dead on base.
Before signing off his Web page on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world.
“Jesus, I don’t know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that’s what lifes about,” Meyer wrote. “When it is all said and done … it is the ones you love who you will remember.”
The next morning, Meyer was found dead in the Army barracks at Fort Gordon in Georgia. He was 20.
Meyer joined the Army early last year to get some direction. The decision surprised friends who knew Meyer disliked President Bush and opposed the war in Iraq.
Meyer soon became miserable in the Army, where he worked in a military intelligence unit.
On April 21, Meyer made one last movie that he added to his MySpace site, a short film about Army life he called Bored As Hell: A Weekend at Ft. Gordon. The movie shows soldiers listening to music, drinking Jack Daniels out of the bottle and playing hacky-sack. It ends with two messages of white script on a black screen.
The first reads: “Dedicated to America’s Youth. Go to college and lead a normal life. Don’t make the same mistake I did.”
The second ends: “And fucking vote. Don’t let old people run your lives, you have a choice.“
Just above his last message at his blog — under Dylan’s Blurbs — his mother has added a note.
Posted: Sun - April 30, 2006 at 09:39 AM