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120 US war veteran suicides a weekArticle from: Agence France-Presse

From correspondents in New York

November 15, 2007 09:47am

THE US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killingthemselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by UStelevision network CBS.

At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day -the network reported, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to taketheir own lives as the rest of the general population.

While the suicide rate among the general population was 8.9 per 100,000, thelevel among veterans was between 18.7 and 20.8 per 100,000.

That figure rose to 22.9 to 31.9 suicides per 100,000 among veterans aged 20to 24 - almost four times the non-veteran average for the age group.

"Those numbers clearly show an epidemic of mental health problems,'' CBSquoted veterans' rights advocate Paul Sullivan as saying.

CBS quoted the father of a 23-year-old soldier who shot himself in 2005 assaying the military did not want the true scale of the problem to be known.

"Nobody wants to tally it up in the form of a government total,'' Mike Bowmansaid.

"They don't want the true numbers of casualties to really be known.''

There are 25 million veterans in the United States, 1.6 million of whom servedin Afghanistan and Iraq, according to CBS.

"Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobodycomes home unchanged,'' Paul Rieckhoff, a former Marine and founder of Iraqand Afghanistan Veterans for America said on CBS.

The network said it was the first time that a nationwide count of veteransuicides had been conducted.

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The tally was reached by collating suicide data from individual states forboth veterans and the general population from 1995.

Herald and Weekly Times.

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For Bush and the rest of the neocons that is an acceptable number.

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#1 donkey View profile More optionsNov 16, 5:14 am

"-" wrote in message> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22762457-5005961,00.html> 120 US war veteran suicides a week> There are 25 million veterans in the United States, 1.6 million of whom> served> in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to CBS.

Fun with statistics.Is 120 per week a new number?Is it different from what it has been in the past?Is it out of line with the suicide rate of non-veterans?

120 suicides per week = 6,240 per yearSuicides per year in the US = 29,000-30,000.That would mean vets make up about 21% of the suicide deaths.The US Population is 301,139,847 (as of July 2007).Vets make up about 8% of the population.There are 24,128,000 military veterans in the US.Of them, 1,695,000 are women (0.007%)Men commit suicide more often than women (by 4:1)

Based on all the numbers, 120 per week for US veterans (primarily men) seemsto be "normal" when compared to the overall suicide rate.

So why is it news?

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John P. View profile More optionsNov 17, 9:33 pm

"#1 donkey" wrote in a message

> For Bush and the rest of the neocons that is an acceptable number.

It is in line with the rate of suicides for non-vets. It is the same numberit has been under past presidents as well. It's the same number as that of

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