Re: The 2008 Presidential Elections - Chapter 2
Hmmm, I wonder if this assessment of US troop morale includes a consideration that the VA estimates about a thousand suicide attempts are made among veterans PER MONTH!
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/column...ansuicide.html
Specifically, Dr. Ira Katz, the VA’s head of mental health, insisted in a CBS interview, “there is no epidemic of suicide.”
The VA and Katz provided the network showing 790 attempted suicides in 2007.
Yet two days afterwards, Katz told a media adviser in an e-mail labeled: “Shhh --- not for the CBS News Interview Request” that “our suicide prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 attempts per month among veterans we see in our medical facilities.
CBS reported an epidemic of 6,200 veteran suicides in 2005. Katz attacked the report, yet in an email said , “there are about 18 suicides per day among America’s 25 million veterans.” That would be 6,570 per year.
Interestingly, these stats do not include reports about suicide and suicide attempts among soldiers still on active duty.
Originally posted by Karen
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http://www.huntingtonnews.net/column...ansuicide.html
Specifically, Dr. Ira Katz, the VA’s head of mental health, insisted in a CBS interview, “there is no epidemic of suicide.”
The VA and Katz provided the network showing 790 attempted suicides in 2007.
Yet two days afterwards, Katz told a media adviser in an e-mail labeled: “Shhh --- not for the CBS News Interview Request” that “our suicide prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 attempts per month among veterans we see in our medical facilities.
CBS reported an epidemic of 6,200 veteran suicides in 2005. Katz attacked the report, yet in an email said , “there are about 18 suicides per day among America’s 25 million veterans.” That would be 6,570 per year.
Interestingly, these stats do not include reports about suicide and suicide attempts among soldiers still on active duty.
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