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I found the article you mentioned, Marek, last night, and it refers to the number of serving American military and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Adghanistan, showing that for the last two years, the number of suicides among these very young people is higher than those killed in battle (if an improvised bomb-blast is a battle) in the two mentioned countries.
But it also mentioned that the number of attempted suicides of serving American soldiers and veterans of Iraq-Afghanistan is over 1,200 a year.
The figures I wrote about in the original post regards ALL American veterans, including those, therefore, of Vietnam, Korea, and some other places, and I have checked them on multiple sites, and they are correct: an average of 18 American veterans a day commit suicide, about 6,000 a year.
You CANNOT dispute this, Marek! The evidence is there.
According to information available on the Web, the stress of soldiers who have been to war is systematically down-played by the establishment, which was the theme I was pointin out on this thread.
For example, more British soldiers and sailors veterans of the Falklands war have commited suicide, than those who fell in that war.
Very often, the cause is having witnessed the death (deaths) of a friend, of comrades, or of civilians. And the lack of professional treatment for the phsycholgical damage of the soldiers.
I came across an article of 2009, stating that David Cameron and Liam Fox brought to Parliament a complaint, and declared that many British soldiers serving in Afghanistan are, and will be in the future, at high risk of committing suicide.,
But once in power, these two people changed their mind, and the war went merilly on.
People who preach interventionism, usually don't go and see what the soldiers go through, once sent in to other people's wars. When they preach, they don't speak for the soldiers.