349-295
September 12, 2013
That is the number of military suicides last year compared to the number of deaths in combat. And people still want to join the military? Oh, but I would never kill myself, they all say. I would bet money that all of the 349 military personnel who killed themselves last year thought the same thing when they enlisted. Guardian article here.
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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