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Today: -22. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for the same
We are losing about 22 vets every single day to suicide. The 1,892 count is from Jan 1 to March 27, 2014
Jan 22 vets per day x 31 days = 682 suicides every month
Feb 22 vets per day x 28 days = 616 suicides
Mar 22 vets per day x 31 days = 682 suicides
Now, multiply the averages: 682 x 12=8184 per year
Let’s do one more: 8,184 x 14=114,576 total since 2001 when the conflict began.
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Total count not including April 1980 suicides
Todays count would be 1980 + 176 for (April 8, 2014) = Total, not counting today 2156.
These numbers (although only an average with a lot of wiggle room.) are I’m sure these numbers are off. These #’s aren’t “OFF” enough for me. These are staggering numbers and I hear Nothing out of Washington and not enough noise from The Peanut Gallery.
That would be us–The US and the citizens of this great nation–brought to you by: the blood, sweat, and tears of US and Coalition forces…for FOURTEEN years.
We, The People need to start making some noise. If not I’m afraid we are going to be worse off than any of us can imagine; the consequences of our actions, (or lack there of) will be devastating and maybe even unrecoverable.
PLEASE SHARE THESE NUMBERS. IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE FOR THEM. THANK YOU.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/us/using-flags-to-focus-on-veteran-suicides.html?_r=1
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