Writes Andrew Main: “In my last year of high school (1960-61) in Santa Barbara, California, one day our physical education class took a break from the usual sadistic pushups-on-fingertips etc. program mandated by our (drill) instructor, to attend a presentation by several military recruiters. Of course attendance was required, which seemed to me wrong somehow. “Intimidated intellectual proto-nerd type though I was, I somehow managed to summon up enough whatever to ask a simple question: ‘What is the suicide rate in the Navy?’ I was at least half-serious, as it seemed to me, with the draft looming, that were I … Continue reading re: Army Suicides