(Number of Suicides)Civilian Soldiers' Suicide Rate Alarming -- USA Today
National Guard soldiers who are not on active duty killed themselves this year at nearly twice the rate of 2009, marring a year when suicides among Army soldiers on active duty appear to be leveling off, new Army statistics show.
Eighty-six non-active-duty Guard soldiers have killed themselves in the first 10 months of 2010, compared with 48 such suicides in all of 2009.
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My Comment: These statistics will be with us for a very long time. My Godfather was a World War 2 vet, and he committed suicide 17 years after the war .... a reminder to me that sometimes the awful memories of war do not dissipate with time.
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