Every Hour Veterans Plant Flags for Lives They Know Are Lost to Suicide

This is what is important because this outcome is after far too many years of suffering for far too many. Read this story and then watch the video. Then please tell me they are not worth saving.

Flags planted every hour to raise awareness for military suicide
KHOU 11 News
Kevin Reece
March 20, 2015

HOUSTON -- Over the course of the 441 hours of basketball games that make up the NCAA March Madness tournament, 441 American flags will be planted in front of the PTSD Foundation of America's Camp Hope in Northwest Houston to draw attention to the unsolved epidemic of military suicides.

"Losing basically one every hour," said PTSD Foundation Executive Director David Maulsby while standing in front of the first 24 flags placed in the ground since the tournament began.

"We've been 24 hours since the tournament started, we've lost 24 veterans to suicide," said Maulsby of the statistically proven estimate of one active duty or military veteran suicide approximately every 64 minutes. "And that should get people's attention."

Maulsby decided to have the residents of Camp Hope place one of the flags every hour on the hour until the tournament is over. Camp Hope offers counseling and treatment for soldiers and their families battling PTSD.
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