The Veteran Suicide Explosion And You

The Veteran Suicide Explosion And You
Rick Ungar, Contributor
5/07/2012
According to the election year polling data that serves as a constant reflection of what we—as a nation—care about, the economy consistently ranks at the very top of the list.

No big shock there.

But as you tick down the recitals of what we perceive as our most pressing troubles, nowhere on the list of worries that supposedly rule our voting preferences do we see anything that reflects our concern over the following shameful fact of the American experience—every eighty minutes, each and every single day of the week, a veteran will take his or her own life.

I’m going to write that down again.

Every eighty minutes a veteran will take his or her own life.

So serious is the problem that veterans of our military services now represent 20 percent of all suicides in the United States despite the fact that only 1 percent of Americans have served in the military.
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