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11-15-2007, 05:30 PM
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22762457-5005961,00.html
THE US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS.
At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day - the network reported, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to take their own lives as the rest of the general population.
"Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged,'' Paul Rieckhoff, a former Marine and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America said on CBS.
The network said it was the first tim
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml
One age group stood out. Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. (The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000.)
The death toll (from war, self-infliced, accidental, civilian, POW) from the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are reaching numbers which many in the U.S. just couldn't comprehend. Sadly enough the bush administration and the media lighten up the numbers be incorrectly reporting them or censoring out the damage just enough to pacify the public. This is just the beginning if Iran is invaded.
bush keeps saying everyone should support the troops, so why isn't he?
IMPEACH
THE US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS.
At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day - the network reported, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to take their own lives as the rest of the general population.
"Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged,'' Paul Rieckhoff, a former Marine and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America said on CBS.
The network said it was the first tim
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml
One age group stood out. Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. (The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000.)
The death toll (from war, self-infliced, accidental, civilian, POW) from the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are reaching numbers which many in the U.S. just couldn't comprehend. Sadly enough the bush administration and the media lighten up the numbers be incorrectly reporting them or censoring out the damage just enough to pacify the public. This is just the beginning if Iran is invaded.
bush keeps saying everyone should support the troops, so why isn't he?
IMPEACH