Suicide is now the leading cause of death in the army. More soldiers die by suicide than in combat or vehicle accidents, and rates are rising: July, with 38 suicides among active duty and reserve soldiers, was the worst month since the Army began counting. General Lloyd Austin III, the army’s second in command, called suicide ‘the worst enemy I have faced in my 37 years in the army.
Friday, September 28th, 2012
For Veterans, a Surge of New Treatments for Trauma
Author: TINA ROSENBERG
Source: The New York Times
Publication Date: September 26, 2012, 7:00 am
Link: For Veterans, a Surge of New Treatments for Trauma
Source: The New York Times
Publication Date: September 26, 2012, 7:00 am
Link: For Veterans, a Surge of New Treatments for Trauma
Stephan: I am appalled at the number of suicides occurring in the military. Thanks to the Neocons a significant portion of an entire generation of young men and women had their lives, and the lives of their families and loved ones destroyed -- for no good reason. It is an obscenity that will forever blot American history.
Tina Rosenberg won a Pulitzer Prize for her book 'The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism.
