Why Do So Many Veterans Want to Commit Suicide?
March 15, 2019
This recent story on All Things Considered (“VA Struggles To Unlock The Reasons Behind High Suicide Rates Among Older Veterans”) got me thinking. If veterans are such great people, role models, heroes, brave, etc., etc., etc., who are almost worshiped by many Americans, honored, held in high esteem, continually thanked for their service, etc., etc., etc., then why do so many of them want to kill themselves?
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.
Comrade Bernie Sanders' True Beliefs