Mindless stunts on suicide awareness continue

Welcome to 2018, looks like we're about to enter into another decade of people getting publicity for something they didn't bother to learn anything about!

Another mindless stunt sold as raising awareness that veterans are committing suicide, when they cannot even get the number right...or even ask what they can do to change the outcome.

This is from WAAY News. Reporter didn't care about the story either!

Miles helps organize the event every year to raise awareness about mental health issues and suicide rates among veterans."The VA reports that about 22 veterans a day, from Vietnam veterans to today's war veterans, take their life and that's unacceptable," said Miles.

Yes, it is unacceptable that Miles did not read the report to know that number was an average of limited data from just 21 states. Also unacceptable is that apparently the report afterwards by the VA putting the number at "20" a day had pretty much been unchanged SINCE 1999!

Too many veterans have committed suicide because they did not know that tomorrow could be any better than their last worst day was!

Veterans don't need awareness they want to die. They need to know they can heal and take their lives back instead of ending them!

Psychic Didn't See Arrest Coming After Ripping Off Veterans With PTSD?

Florida psychic accused of taking thousands from war veteran suffering from PTSD
BY KFOR-TV and K. QUERRY
POSTED 1:40 PM, MAY 25, 2017

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – Florida police say a woman who claimed to be psychic targeted a disabled veteran who was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.

Investigators say Gina Wilson obtained thousands of dollars from clients, including a 33-year-old Iraq war veteran.

Detectives say Wilson promised the man that she could stop his PTSD. In fact, she convinced him to stop taking his medication, saying his doctors and his family members were part of the problem.

“She made some promises to him that she could bring him out of what she called the darkness that she said he was in,” said Sgt. Scott Gross, with the Pinellas County Police Department.

Investigators say Wilson got away with thousands in cash.

“She exploited them, no doubt, out of close to $150,000,” said Sgt. Gross.
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Now if they can do the same with all of these fraud charities...that would be nice! (and no you don't have to be a psychic to know what I was thinking in between the dots!

Bogus Free Phones For Veterans Leaving 800,000 Unplugged

Government-funded phones issued to Central Florida veterans in scheme
800,000 approved veterans never eligible
Click Orlando
Author: Mike Holfeld, Problem Solver
August 24, 2015

The employees say 30 to 40 men and women were hired by Elite Marketing all of them told to take applications from veterans for free cell phones.

An email sent by Elite Marketing Group’s Director of Account Services to the Orlando supervisor last February included attachments of fliers announcing the Free Phones Program.

From September 2014 to July 2015 an estimated 40,000 to 800,000 Florida vets were illegally approved for free cellphones under the government’s Lifeline program.

On Sept. 1 most, if not all, of those phones will be disconnected because the vets were never eligible to receive them in the first place.

Former employees with New York based Elite Marketing came to WKMG after they started getting complaints from veterans who were being told they didn’t qualify for the phones.

Letters from Safe Link, one of the largest distributors of the free phones, asked veterans for proof of eligibility.

The letter reading in part: ”We need to obtain copies of valid documentation that shows you are a qualified benefit recipient.”

Under the Lifeline program eligibility includes anyone receiving: food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, Section 8 housing or National School Free Lunch Program. Military service has never been on the list.

One former Elite Marketing employee identifying herself only as Carrie, was considered one of Elite’s top employees.

In 10 months dating back to September 2014, she said she must have given away 20,000 free phones to veterans.

Carrie says she was paid roughly $4,000 every two weeks. She was told Elite was making $150 per application.
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