An average of 18 veterans commit suicide each and every day of the year, according to recent statistics from the Veterans Administration (VA). That’s 126 veterans who kill themselves every week. Or some 6,552 who take their own lives each year. Our veterans are killing themselves at twice the rate of other Americans.
One quarter of the homeless people in America are military veterans. That’s one in every four. Is that ragged man huddled on the steam grate in a brutal winter wind a Vietnam vet? Did that younger man panhandling for pocket change on the street corner fight in Kandahar or Fallujah?
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Defense officials believe they have rules in place to make sure gang members aren’t signing up or being recruited to join the military.But Scott Barfield, a former gang investigator for the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., said he has seen many recruits with spotty records allowed into the service, with little concern about whether they’ve renounced their gang past.
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The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment — along with alcohol abuse, family discord and other attendant problems — appear to have set the stage for a tragedy that was part destruction, part self-destruction.
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Did you read that some one vetted this story and found that the facts were all wrong and that actually Post Iraq vets were 8 times less likely to kill than the same group of non veterans. The majority of us veterans are alive and marvel at the world here in the US and are a heck of a lot less likely to kill. MUD
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