Yep . . . pretty much.

Also works if you flip it around.

Ha! You are correct! I hadn't considered that.

Your meme reminded me of someone I knew.

Karl had grown up in the South and was a straight arrow Southern Baptist. He became a Marine and was sent to fight in Iraq. One day he was fast-roping:

"Fast-roping is a technique for descending a thick rope, allowing troops to deploy from a helicopter in places where the aircraft cannot touch down.

Several people can slide down the same rope simultaneously, provided that there is a gap of about 3 metres (10 ft) between them, so that each one has time to get out of the way when they reach the ground."

The Marine behind him came down too soon, hundreds of pounds of soldier and gear crushing his spine.

The VA tried to operate and repair the damage to end his pain, but couldn't. So they did what the VA did back then: they gave him drugs. Later, when the VA drug scandal broke, they decided he was taking too many drugs. They cut back on what he could have. Desperate and in pain, he tried some street drug which killed him. The first I thought I had when I learned of his death was "The VA killed him."

One article, of many:

Veterans dying from overmedication
September 19, 2013
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veterans-dying-from-overmedication/

Five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan left 35-year-old Army Spc. Scott McDonald with chronic back pain.

"And I asked him," Heather recalled, "'You didn't by chance by accident take too many pills, did you?' And he's like, 'No, no. I did what they told me to take, Heather.' I popped a pillow under his head and that's how I found him the next morning, exactly like that."

McDonald wasn't breathing. The coroner's report ruled his death accidental. He had been "overmedicated" and that he died from the combined effects of five of his medications.

Our VA still almost always over medicates. They did this with my elder brother and very nearly ended up getting him committed after the stuff messed with his head. Eventually he weaned himself from the pain meds and then crashed with a heart attack. Did his inept medical treatments cause it or did they disguise symptoms that might have otherwise been noticed in time? He's still alive, but he's not the man he used to be.

Meh . . . I was lucky . . . or more stubborn. My life altering injuries were much less serious in nature and so I live with pain by exercising, meditating, restricting my diet . . . and by being a political junkie instead. So far, so good!

Thank you for your service. I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you and your brother.

It seems that every few years there's a new VA scandal ("Walter Reed" "Phoenix VA") and politicians rush to promise that they're going to fix the VA.

I learned from Karl's obituary that he had also been blown up by an IED. He had never mentioned it. When I think of what happened to him at the VA, it makes me angry to this day.