According to an Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America report, veteran suicides continue to rise. In March 2012, 28 soldiers reportedly took their own lives. The month before 15 suicides were reported, according to the U.S. Army.
In 2011, the Veterans Affairs Department reported an average of 950 suicide attempts each month in 2009. Seven percent of those attempts were successful while 11 percent of those who didn’t succeed the first time tried again in nine months.
@Bert: Those numbers are just astounding. That’s almost one soldier every day. Most sickening is that the articles discussing the matter all suggesting “increased mental health support” instead of considering the possibility that the problem is the war and killing itself - what it is we’re asking these soldiers to do while over there.
I would like to see a study that compares the suicide rate between soldiers that have seen front-lines combat and soldiers that have not. I’m willing to bet money that most of the suicides are in the former category and that the suicide rate in the latter category is not significantly higher than the population average. “Deployment” or “active duty” are rather empty terms, simply being geographically located anywhere in or near and in support of Iraq is called “deployed to Iraq.”
I actually just came across this book the other day- I’ve never heard of it! I absolutely enjoyed Garrison’s graphical representation of ABCT in his Diagrammatical Exposition, especially comparing it to the Keynesian representation of the Business Cycle and exposing the various fallacies.
I’m very interested in purchasing Time and Money and reading it.
I don’t know what makes a top 10 or how contribution is “measured” on this forum- I would be interested if anyone did know. I just noticed the green bar under your avatar is fully green- until recently there was one white bar all the way to the right of the bar.
“For reasons unknown” talking about the green bar in this manner reminds me of the aliens in Toy Story and The Claw.
“The Green Bar … The Green Bar decides who contributes and who does not.”
For some time the U.S. has been scheduled to draw down troops in Afghanistan by the year 2014. Most Americans have come to believe that means U.S. involvement in the country will be over at that time. But not so according to a new agreement reached by the U.S. and Afghani governments. In fact, according to that agreement, the U.S. will remain in Afghanistan at least 10 years after the war is supposed to be over.
I still can’t get over that Greenpeace indoctrination piece The Story of Stuff. Those lying bastards! They actually claimed that people in the third world have to move to the cities to be exploited in factories because evil industrialization poisoned their happy rural villages. Right, rural poverty was great until evil capitalism came in and ruined it all with pollution. As if every spot of countryside in the third world was poisoned by industrialization in the last few decades. How exactly are factories in coastal China poisoning central China, eh? People are moving towards the polluted cities, not away from them. And Greenpeace knows this. But they word it in a careful way as to imply stuff that they know is factually wrong, to deliberately deceive children.
ThatOldGuy is unsure as to whether he should tell EmperorNero that Annie Leonard has more “The Story of …” videos in which she blatantly lies -or is, at least, very ignorant- to the audience.
