Military murder-suicides were big news in 2006

Military Murder-Suicide Not Growing! But that didn't stop the headline trying to convince people that murder-suicide cases were growing. Hey why not just jump all over veterans when they had the chance? Right? Isn't that was the press has been doing all along?

Over on Fort Carson there were 15 Domestic Violence Incidents Every Month. Big news? Sure it was but that was back in 2006. The same year there was this piece of news, More than 56,000 troops, or 10 percent, have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with a mental health diagnosis, making up a third of those in Veterans Affairs care. The cost of mental health care is high, he said — the VA spent $4.3 billion on post-traumatic stress disorder alone in 2004. 40,000 troops have deserted their posts (not simply those serving in Iraq) since the year 2000 according to the Pentagon. 100,000 of the 567,000 discharged veterans were disabled.

So why did I just waste a couple of hours after work to look for these stories? Because I am fed up with people deciding to write something for attention while the wrong attention is given to the troops and veterans. Had these people paid attention all along, I doubt things would still be this bad for them.

Cause of Death Because They Served But if you took all the "murder-suicide" cases since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, and totaled them together, you still wouldn't see any kind of crisis. On Wounded Times there are a total of 88 "murder-suicide" posts. Keep in mind that I track reports from all over the country. If you look for "military suicides" you'll find 1,580. What you will find is a crisis in veterans committing suicide just as there was one back in 2007 when hardly nothing was being done.