Graphic shows veterans commit suicide every hour

The graphic from Huffington Post is amazing but as powerful as it is, it does not include members of the National Guards or Reservists.

2012 Military Suicides
Source Department of Defense

There is something else that is very important to notice. The fact that the majority of veterans committing suicide are over 50. Most of them are Vietnam veterans.

People working on helping veterans are freaked out over the numbers of OEF and OIF veterans we see suffering today because of what happened when Vietnam veterans came home. Nothing was being done for them before they pushed for everything available today, yet the number of Vietnam veterans committing suicide took years to go up after the Vietnam War was over. It is all happening too fast for the new generation.

The numbers of suicides and attempted suicides following years of "efforts" and billions spent every year to "prevent" them with over 900 suicide prevention programs coupled with what is still happening to Vietnam veterans has us all in fear that these numbers are only the beginning and the military still doesn't have a clue what works because they are too busy pushing what has already failed.

Veteran Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, Child Gun Deaths
(INFOGRAPHIC)
Huffington Post
Jan Diehm
Posted: 05/24/2013

Memorial Day commemorates the U.S. soliders who lost their lives in service. It's also a time to recognize a growing but less visible group of fallen soliders who chose to end their own lives while serving or after returning from war.

There are about 22 veteran suicides each day, a rate higher than previous estimates, based on a report released by the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year. Many veterans who take their own lives are over 50, but the hundreds of thousands of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan also struggle to adjust to civilian life while dealing with the mental and physical effects of war on top of a weak job market.

One an hour.

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