Uncounted Suicides
June 6, 2014
It is a well-known fact that something like 22 military veterans commit suicide every day. What is not so well known is the number of suicides of military spouses, siblings, and parents. Military life is a family killer, and especially with the military fighting unnecessary, senseless wars like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, most conservative evangelical churches that preach and teach “family values” see nothing wrong with their young people joining the military after high school.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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