Our vets are committing suicide at the rate of 22-23 a DAY, FOLKS! And it isn’t just from PTSD from horrors they experienced on the battlefield - BUT FROM THE TREATMENT OF THE VA.
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Most of the vets who make up that stat are not recent vets. Instead they are men who make up the largest cohort of suicides : Men over age 55. Vet or not, this is the largest suicide cohort. And many of those men from those generations were military.
I know too many names of Vets who committed suicides - including from Afghanistan - I know the Vets who are doing everything they to network and keep constant touch with their brothers from the ‘ghan - and who have stopped suicides.
The VA is USELESS in this. They even have VOICE MAIL on the VA suicide hotline....and it has cost lives