Army Suicides Are Up

I was just reading a story at Yahoo News about the increase in Army suicides , and it states this is the highest in many years. This should be an important story for those of us who care and support the Troops, even if we no longer support the War in Iraq. The military needs to give these men and women the appropriate care, without attaching a stigma to "getting" help, that has often caused troops who need help, to go without it!

The number of Army suicides increased again last year, amid the most violent year yet in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, six more than the previous year. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the full report on the deaths wasn't being released until later Thursday.

About a quarter of the deaths occurred in Iraq. The overall toll was the highest in many years, and it was unclear when, if ever, it was previously that high. Immediately available Army records go back only to 1990 and the figure then was lower at 102 for that year as well as 1991.

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Lawsuit Over Veteran's Suicide

Here is just one more example of the breakdown of the Veterans' Affair's and a case which brings it down to a single individual who was not helped by the current system. We can only hope that this lawsuit and the class action lawsuit filed the other day will get all of our politicians in Washington working on, and correcting this mess that our injured veteran's are dealing with on a daily basis.

The parents of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide sued the U.S. government on Thursday for negligence, charging their son hanged himself after the government ignored his depression.

I wish to send my condolences to the parents, family, and friend's of Jeffrey Lucey, May he now be at peace.

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