For Every U.S. Soldier Killed On Battlefield This Year, 25 Veterans Die By Own Hands

This scandalous statistic is revealed by Nicholas D. Kristof in an op-ed for the New York Times:

Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands.

An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More than 6,500 veteran suicides are logged every year — more than the total number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined since those wars began.

These unnoticed killing fields are places like New Middletown, Ohio, where Cheryl DeBow raised two sons, Michael and Ryan Yurchison, and saw them depart for Iraq. Michael, then 22, signed up soon after the 9/11 attacks.

“I can’t just sit back and do nothing,” he told his mom. Two years later, Ryan followed his beloved older brother to the Army.

When Michael was discharged, DeBow picked him up at the airport — and was staggered. “When he got off the plane and I picked him up, it was like he was an empty shell,” she told me. “His body was shaking.” Michael began drinking and abusing drugs, his mother says, and he terrified her by buying the same kind of gun he had carried in Iraq. “He said he slept with his gun over there, and he needed it here,” she recalls.

Then Ryan returned home in 2007, and he too began to show signs of severe strain. He couldn’t sleep, abused drugs and alcohol, and suffered extreme jitters.

“He was so anxious, he couldn’t stand to sit next to you and hear you breathe,” DeBow remembers. A talented filmmaker, Ryan turned the lens on himself to record heartbreaking video of his own sleeplessness, his own irrational behavior — even his own mock suicide…

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Comment by Less Prone on April 16, 2012 at 8:10am

What is worse; to see and participate in the horrors of war or to understand that it all was based on lies? Honest, benevolent, people are manipulated to become monsters. When they wake up to see the reality they are morally shattered, nothing much remains.

Comment by Ken Troxel on April 16, 2012 at 1:40am

“The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last ben properly organized.” – Boris Vian (True statement: Depleted Uranium munitions kills all who are exposed it or eventually will.)

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