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Suicide Hot Line Got Calls From 22,000 Veterans
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: army, navy, air force, marinesm coast guard, national guard, suicide, troops, us, war, military, help, va, veterans, ptsd )

NotSilent
- 467 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The VA estimates that every year 6,500 veterans take their own lives. ...... of the 18 veterans who commit suicide each day, four to five of them are under VA care, and 12,000 veterans under VA care are attempting suicide each year.
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Why Did U.S. Soldier Kill Herself -- Instead of Taking Part in Torture? - Politics on The Huffington Post
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: torture, women in the military, suicide )


- 580 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
They stripped prisoners naked and then removed their blindfolds so that I was the first thing they saw. And then we were supposed to mock them and degrade their manhood. And it really didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. I didn't know if this was sta
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A Soldier's Suicide: Did He Have to Die?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: soldier, suicide, death, sad, bush, bushadministration, corruption, crime, ethics, politics, terrorism, war, usa, troops, republicans, military, government, congress, iraq )

Mari
- 689 days ago - news.yahoo.com
His parents didn't find out about the note for well over a year, and only then when it showed up in a government envelope in his father's rural North Carolina mailbox.
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USA TODAY; Army Suicide Rate at 26-Year High
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, army, suicide )

Valerie
- 814 days ago - usatoday.com
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years of record-keeping.
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No Records Kept on Veterans' Suicides
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: troops, military, cover-up, suicide )


- 892 days ago - military.com
WASHINGTON - In the three months after Marine Maj. John Ruocco returned from Iraq feeling numb and depressed, he couldn't sleep. He had lost weight. He had nightmares. He was distracted and withdrawn from his two young sons.
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Mentally Unfit, Forced To Fight
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: U.S. military, war, psychological health, troops, suicide )

Xochi
- 970 days ago - courant.com
The U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs of mental illness, a Courant investigation has found.
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