We would never accept defeat on this major battle after war

What do you think when you hear there are 22 veterans everyday committing suicide? Almost one every hour and 8,030 each year.

Those numbers are men and women, far more than numbers, but we don't seem to care enough. If we had,  we would never accept defeat on this major battle after war. Take a look at the numbers from combat and compare them to what you just read.

Vietnam War

Year of Death
Number of Records
1956 - 1959
4

1960
5

1961
16

1962
53

1963
122

1964
216

1965
1,928

1966
6,350

1967
11,363

1968
16,899

1969
11,780

1970
6,173

1971
2,414

1972
759

1973
68

1974
1

1975
62

Service Number of Records
Air Force
2,586

Army
38,224

Coast Guard
7

Marine Corps
14,844

Navy
2,559

Total Records
58,220

Gulf War 1990-1991 Persian Gulf, Op Desert Shield/Storm 363 but we lose at least 660 each month to suicide.

In one year, we lost more veterans to suicide than we lost during the entire war in Iraq 4,476 from 2003-2012

In one year, we lost more veterans to suicide than during the entire war in Afghanistan 2,342 so far from 2001.

Major combat operations are far from over when they have a harder time staying alive back home than they did fighting the other part of war.  If we do not change what we are doing, we have accepted defeat and given up on saving their lives.