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Army, VA seek answers to rising military suicide rate (www.pantagraph.com)
Do you think that God’s going to send me to hell for killing innocent people?” former Sgt. Joshua Barber asked his wife one day last summer. Kelly Barber tried to reassure her distraught husband.... More
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Army uses video games in suicide prevention (www.csmonitor.com)
As the strains of war push the Army's suicide rate up to an all-time high, the service is turning to a fictional soldier named Spc. Kyle Norton to encourage soldiers to seek help faster.
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Program Plans Suicide-Prevention ‘Webinar’ for Grief Counselors (www.defenselink.mil)
As part of an effort to educate civilian and military health care providers about grief counseling, the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS, is planning a “webinar” featuring a... More
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VA sued over Marine’s suicide (www.militarytimes.com)
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is being blamed for the suicide of a 24-year-old Michigan man who served with the Marines in Iraq.
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VA chief labels vet suicide ‘chronic problem’ (www.mpnnow.com)
Veteran Affairs Secretary Dr. James Peake called the suicide rate among veterans “a chronic problem” during a visit Thursday to the VA Medical Center. Referring to statistics showing that, on... More
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U.S. Still Losing Half a Rifle Company's Worth of Vets Every Year to Suicide
(www.alternet.org)
It’s Veteran’s Day and exactly a week since Obama’s exhilarating victory. I know that I, like so many others, am filled with soaring hope and feeling expansive. In truth, so many Americans have... More
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Distress Signal
(www.prospect.org)
Derek Henderson was jumpy and full of rage when he came home from Iraq in 2003. Over the next four years, he fought with his mother and brothers and got into trouble with the police. Finally, on June... More
Submitted 24 days ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Army and Agency Will Study Rising Suicide Rate Among Soldiers (www.nytimes.com)
Conceding it needed outside help in figuring out why the suicide rate among service members was rising, the Army announced plans on Wednesday to collaborate with the National Institute of Mental... More
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Woman’s personal tragedy used to educate others (www.ngb.army.mil)
No one would have faulted Carol Graham or her husband U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Mark A. Graham if they had kept their enormous grief private. Their youngest son, Kevin, committed suicide in June 2003.... More
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Army's Life-or-Death Drama (www.washingtonpost.com)
Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool -- an interactive video to be mandatory viewing Army-wide -- in which soldiers will play the role... More
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