24 April 2008

18: number of iraq & afghanistan war veterans who commit suicide daily


brain cell mystery, by Morris Armstrong Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo"



…from today's San Francisco Chronicle:
Gordon Erspamer, the attorney who brought the lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs that went to trial this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco…."If you add up the veterans' suicides among those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and compare it to the total combat deaths, the veteran suicides are higher," says Erspamer, who introduced a VA e-mail at the trial that showed an average of 18 vets a day are committing suicide. "The VA doesn't want that out."

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