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from www.truthout.com In this interview, we discuss with Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who fought in Iraq, the hidden impacts of war on those who serve. In 2009, Hoh became the first known U.S. official to resign in protest over the Afghan War. "The costs of these wars are hidden," Hoh says. "Men and women coming from war have always been afflicted by suicide. The problem is we don’t get help until we hit rock bottom." Twenty-two U.S. veterans commit suicide every day, a toll

October 31, 2014 War was the leading cause of death in the military nearly every year between 2004 and 2011 until suicides became the top means of dying for troops in 2012 and 2013, according to a bar chart published this week in a monthly Pentagon medical statistical analysis journal. For those last two years, suicide outranked war, cancer, heart disease, homicide, transportation accidents and other causes as the leading killer, accounting for about three in 10 military deat

Hundreds of Thousands of Aging Vietnam Veterans Recieve Treatment SANDISFIELD, Mass.—Nightmares of a friend dying beside him in a bunker years ago now waken Donald Vitkus. “There is stuff that you carry from the war,” the 71-year-old Vietnam veteran said. Mr. Vitkus spends his days in and out of therapy at a residential rehabilitation center filled with mostly older veterans, working on his memory while trying to gain control over disturbing recollections and the emotions the

11/28/14 To take one’s own life is a final act of fear and pain, when the ability to have even hope for a better tomorrow is pushed away by darkness and despair. It shouldn’t surprise us that hard times lead to a spike in suicides. We’ve all heard stories of people leaping from buildings during the stock market crash of 1929. The latest recession also affected people’s mental health, something detailed in a recent study from the University of Cambridge in England showing that

When Eric Marcus was 12 years old, his father took his own life. The following day, Marcus, now 56 years old, recalls going to school as though nothing had happened. His family told people his father had died of pneumonia. Marcus didn’t say anything to his classmates about his father’s death, which remained a topic not broached amongst his family. Thirty eight years later, in 2008, after Marcus had written a book on dealing with and preventing suicide, he suffered a second bl

Wreaths Across America: Our mission, Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part by coordinating wreath laying ceremonies a specified Saturday in December at Arlington, as well as veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. We also organize a week of events including international veteran’s tributes, ceremonies at State Houses and a week-long “Veteran’s Parade” between Maine and Virginia where we stop along the way to spread our message about the

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For anyone interested in joining us in honoring our fallen hero Dane Michael and all other veterans, there will be a Veterans Day ceremony this Sunday, November 9th at 2:00 p.m. rain or shine at Dane's final resting place, Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. The address to the cemetery is: RR #2, Box 484 Indiantown Gap Road Annville, PA 17003-9618 #veterans #grave #holiday #veteran #suicide #cemetery