🧩 BND Motif Index · M469
Tommy
Leaders praise the troops but fail them, deployments stretched far past the promise with no relief, the wounded and the veterans left to fight red tape for the care they were promised. Named for a Kipling poem.
📜 Plots🗂️ War motifs🗂️ Accountability
- 2claims filed under it
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Asleep at the switch
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Pious hypocrite
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after 321-day deployment 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-11
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-09 “The USS Abraham Lincoln's record 300-day deployment for the Iran war was grueling, with low morale, dwindling supplies and eight suicide attempts, and its sailors and their families are paying the cost of a war of choice.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike received inadequate and delayed medical care from the military, forcing them to seek treatment on their own.” 🧶 people online
M469 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-09 · what this is · how the index works