Suicide On The Homefront In Military Families -- Kristina Kaufmann, CNN
CNN) -- When I married a soldier in June 2001, I knew my life was going to change. I moved from Berkeley, California, to Fort Sill, Oklahoma -- talk about a culture shock. But I was in love, and enthusiastically dove head first into a military life I knew nothing about.
And then 9/11 happened, and my husband went to war.
And then he went again, and again ... and again.
After more than 12 years of sustained war and multiple deployments borne by less than 1% of the population, we now have an entire generation of military families that know nothing but war. And war comes home. I've known three Army wives who've taken their own lives.
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My Comment: What caught my attention in this report (and the whole post is a must read) was this sobering stat ....
.... We can't fix what we don't acknowledge. We do know that one active duty service member and 22 veterans take their own lives every day. Neither the Departments of Defense nor Veterans Affairs tracks the number of family members who die by suicide.
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