Aggressive help needed for veterans

Aggressive help needed for veterans
The Gresham Outlook, Aug 23, 2008

When a soldier returns home safely after a long tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, his or her relatives are simply relieved to have their loved one back alive.

But that relief could be something of an illusion: The dangers lurking here at home – due to scarred psyches – can be as real and deadly as those found in the war zones overseas.

As reported in today’s Outlook, Oregon’s returning servicemen and women are more likely to die of suicide than from action overseas. In fact, Oregon veterans of all wars are killing themselves at alarming rates when compared with the rest of the population.
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