52,275 U.S. Military & Veteran Suicides Since 9/11
There is an enemy in our midst that is having a devastating effect on our servicemen and women in the field and at home. That enemy is stress.
Since 9/11, more military personnel and veterans have committed suicide than the total dead from both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, and this tragedy is occurring despite the best of intentions and programs offered by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
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From 9/11 through last week, almost 1,900 men and women have committed suicide while on active-duty or in Guard or Reserve status. Still worse is a Centers for Disease Control estimate that 18 veterans from all wars commit suicide every day — that’s 6,500 a year!
http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=5055
6,500 x 7.75 years + 1,900 =
52,275 U.S. Military & Veteran Suicides Since 9/11
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Hey Rhino, and Bbagnall
and all the other people and disinformationalist who defend the governments official story of 9/11
Take this to heart.. your karma is going to pay ten fold for maintaining the lie.
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How many were on anti depression drugs.
I would not be surprised if this doesn't have an effect on these poor soles.
To all of them: thank you for your service.
Let us not forget . . .
the neurological damages attributable to this because of the experimental vaccines, the depleted uranium and the diet cokes containing aspartame which converts to formaldehyde in the hot temperatures,
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Major General Smedley Butler:
War Is A Racket
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead
If you want to help end this
you can follow this suggestion....if not these young men will continue to die. VA figures have the suicide number at 17%.
The same group of families that own the Fed and the Bank of England are to blame.
Did you know the US Army killed 1.4 million Philipinos during the war...do you know which war or when? The families control what is in your history books.
These families are the sick men behind all of our wars.
As soon as we focus on them and their central banks the wars will end and the young men will stop committing suicide.
Until then,the young me die. They die because we all support the lie by believing in it.
The own the bank that controls your life...tell everyone the truth and the lie will end..
Unify
This Marine's death came after he served in Iraq
Schulze's father and stepmother, Jim and Marianne Schulze of rural Stewart, Minn., say their son would be alive today if the VA had acted on his pleas for admittance. They say they heard him tell VA staff in St. Cloud that he felt suicidal -- in person on Jan. 11 at the hospital, and over the phone on Jan. 12.
On the evening of Jan. 16, Schulze called family and friends to tell them that he was preparing to kill himself. They called New Prague police, who smashed in the door and found him hanging from an electrical cord. Police attempted to resuscitate him, but it was too late.
After Schulze left the Marines in late 2005, he continued to have aching memories of combat.
"When he got back from Iraq he was mentally scattered," said his older brother Travis, who also served there with the Marines.
Much of Jonathan Schulze's anguish seemed to relate to combat in Ramadi in April 2004. Schulze, who carried a heavy machine gun, wrote his parents that 16 Marines, many of them close friends, had died in two afternoons of firefights and bombings. Twice he was wounded but didn't tell his parents, not wanting them to worry. He wrote them about dismembered bodies. About youth and combat and disillusionment. And about the bombs.
"I pray so much over here and ask God to keep me out of harm's way and to make it back home alive and in one piece," he wrote Jim and Marianne in May 2004. "I bet I easily pray over a dozen times a day and I always pray while I am on patrol as I am terrified of getting hit by an IED aka a bomb. Our vehicle elements and Marines on patrols are getting hit hard by these bombs the Iraqis plant all over and hide on the ground."
Schulze carried guilt that fellow Marines died. He wanted to return to Iraq to somehow redeem himself, said his father, who did three tours of duty in Vietnam.
Because of that, Schulze at first resisted counseling, Jim Schulze said: "Being a Marine, he was too proud to get help. They want to make you impervious of any emotion. And when you get out it's almost impossible to put it back the way it was."
http://www.startribune.com/local/11605966.html
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How many committed suicide per year prior to 9/11?
Watch the CBS News Video Below For More Info & Comparisons
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I think you meant: "These
I think you meant: "These wars have to end, man. We...."
Otherwise, these wars ending man would really suck.
However, as an actual constructive remark, I do agree. As a service member I think it is shameful what is going on. I will be removing myself as a cog in the machine soon.
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Tragic! I just did a basic calculation and added it to the post.
It's not just "more" it's much, much more!
They don't do the math for you in the article, but the math should probably be the headline!
I can't believe it, please tell me I got the math wrong?
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I had a hard time believing the 52k number - but it's correct!
Once I calculated the 52,000 suicides since 9/11 using the numbers given by the VFW, I figured there must be an error in the numbers, right! It must be a typo! Maybe they typed 6500, when they meant to type 650?
Unfortunately the numbers are correct!
CBS News Investigates Shocking Rate Of Veteran Suicides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2-xER8NS8
VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/7-va-confirms-18-vets-c...
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thanks sempiternal,
for all the information. Now we must get it out to all of the people, especially to those who keep voting for warmongers election after election.
Tragic....horribly
I just wish they would have taken a couple of the reasons why they went in the first place down with them...
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
– Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Convention
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Damn.
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Bump for the lives lost...
...and for the family and friends left behind.
Well, if it is the
truth I can understand why with the several tours, it has got to be rough. I have to also consider it is a way to keep these soldiers off the died in action body count that plagued the Viet Nam war. It also could be these people realized they are fighting not for the American people but for corporations.
How can we trust anything they say?
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but the tragedy is far greater
talking with my cousin about iraq where he FINALLY got to come home and he says the men are totally gone due to all of the killing -women children and men who have absolutely nothing to do with any of these lies which the soldiers also are aware of yet they are trapped. obviously these wars are NOT working for anyone but those that profit. END ALL WAR NOW
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Yes indeed the tragedy is far greater than is reported in the
msms and one certainly does strongly realize that when speaking to family and friends returning from there. I have been called an overemotional kook for saying it but I honestly believe that the horrors are compounded by the fact that we attacked and invaded a country of mostly children. The day we went into Iraq, the population was estimated to be 59% under the age of 12. Carnage in war is always horrible but to know that the carnage involves a disproportionate amount of children is reprehensible beyond words....and yes, I have spoken to several troops and civilian employees who spent time there about the effect of seeing war brought upon children. It's hard, based on my personal experience, to keep trying to convince someone that they do truly want to live when the nightmares they live with in every waking moment involves such murderous transgressions against children and other innocents. I can honestly say that I too would have a difficult time living day in and day out with those images in my mind.......but in the end, I have to say that we didn't put ourselves here and we should not think it is right to take ourselves out of here either. Thanks for letting me vent about this here.
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