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Suicide Among Veterans
Posted by • October 05, 2015
Although there seems to be general agreement that the suicide rate for veterans is 50 percent higher than the rate for nonvets, the Los Angeles Times found that suicide is somewhat more common among vets who never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan than it is among those who went to war. Nonetheless, an average of 22 veterans take their own lives every day, a frightening number that needs immediate and ongoing attention.
