Donnelly Looking To Curb Military Suicides
By BRANDON SMITH
IPBS
Posted March 6, 2013
U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly says he wants greater focus on preventing suicide among active-duty military servicemembers and veterans. That includes increasing outreach to vets.
Last year, more combat troops took their own life than died in combat in Afghanistan. And Senator Joe Donnelly says 43 percent of service members who committed suicide never sought help. He says trying to combat the problem of military and veteran suicide needs to involve erasing the stigma of seeking help.
“They feel like, ‘Well, I don’t want to burden somebody’ or ‘I don’t want anybody to have to worry about me’ or ‘I don’t want anybody to have to spend an extra thought on me,’” he says.
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It means what they have been doing to prevent suicides HAS NOT WORKED IN ALL THERSE YEARS! It means that even for the 43% that committed suicide after getting help DID NOT GET WHAT THEY NEED! When will congress finally hold people accountable for all these lives?
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