What Is the Suicide Rate for Active Duty Troops?
February 24, 2015
According to data from the Department of Defense mentioned in this article, it is 48% higher than the national rate. How tragic. Almost as tragic as the conservative comments on the article who blame everything but the unjust, immoral, and senseless foreign wars that these soldiers are sent to fight.
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.
Will You Find One Negative Thing about the U.S. Military and U.S. Foreign Wars?