The number of active duty service deaths have now exceeded the rate of those killed in action. There is one suicide a day on average as reported in BBC News
"While the reasons for the increase are not entirely understood, the army's own data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk. But a portion of those taking their own life have never deployed, the figures show.
Suicide among troops had leveled off during 2010 and 2011, but 2012 has seen the fastest pace since the US war in Afghanistan began in 2001".
We have Cheney and Rumsfeld who never served; who put us in Iraq and kept us there without a budget to pay for it. We have McCain today criticizing President Obama for not getting us involved in a war of some sort to strop the atrocities in Syria. We have candidate Romney who spouts off about what he would do when he knows nothing about war, directly or indirectly. What is more surprising is that people listen to these buffoons.
Wake up America, while you still can.
"While the reasons for the increase are not entirely understood, the army's own data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk. But a portion of those taking their own life have never deployed, the figures show.
Suicide among troops had leveled off during 2010 and 2011, but 2012 has seen the fastest pace since the US war in Afghanistan began in 2001".
When will our politicians realize that the United States is no longer what it used to be. We do not have enough money to handle our own country, our returning servicemen who gave so much even if it wasn't their life (just limbs, brain, eyesight, sanity, etc) but they are expected to come home and wait several months for any medical or other assistance. Where is the therapy to families to help them reintegrate with wives, husbands, or children? It absolutely screams in my brain when I hear people planning to vote for Romney. Do most of them not notice that they once were middle class but that is mostly a class of the past. Now there is only the poor, jobless, under water on mortgage, sick or dying from lack of medical care or money to pay for service, malnourished children, failing infrastructure..Where are the brains that used to live in their heads (assuming they once could spot stupidity and lies?
Wake up America, while you still can.
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