The Toll of Veteran Suicide: Those Unnecessary Deaths
by
Lily Casura
The poet T.S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month," but you know, this time of year, heading into the holidays, isn't that great either -- especially for those who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, when numbers of those who take their own lives actually climb. The numbers are already bad enough; and 'tis the season, so to speak, when they actually get worse.
Currently, 18 veterans a day(!!!) kill themselves; and one active duty servicemember every 36 hours(!!!).
Those are TERRIBLE numbers, because each one represents a life that can never come back, and plunges a family and a community into an often never-ending ordeal.
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The Toll of Veteran Suicide: Those Unnecessary Deaths
If Lily's words do not hit you as hard as they should, maybe if you read some of their stories it will matter to you more than just seeing numbers. This video is a couple of years old but I found over a hundred of their stories.
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