Alarming U. S. Army Suicide Rate Increase

By: cycle12
Published On: 9/11/2008 8:59:50 AM

Please click on this link - http://news.yahoo.com/story//a... - to read AP writer Dan Elliott's recent article about the U. S. Army's sharply increased suicide rate, now at 18.1 per 100,000, nearly double that of 5 years ago.

As Elliott points out in his article, and as our own U. S. Senator Jim Webb and others have repeatedly warned: "Leading factors behind soldier suicides are troubled personal relationships; legal, financial and work problems; and repeated deployments and longer tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army says."

This is yet another indicator that the time for change is long overdue, so please vote Democratic on Tuesday, November 4, in order to start the process of bringing our military personnel home soon...

Thanks.

Steve


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