Veteran suicides on the rise in Tennessee
WBIR
Rachel Kinney
September 11, 2014
The physical scars of war are not the only wounds that can be debilitating for veterans. Traumatic events seared in veterans' memories often haunts them off the battlefield through serious illnesses like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Unfortunately, more veterans in Tennessee committed suicide in 2013 than the previous year. The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that the number of veteran suicides jumped from 197 in 2012 to 214 in 2013.
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