Should The President Send Condolence Letters To Military Suicide Families?

Petition: Barack Obama, seen here departing for France today, is under renewed pressure to ditch the controversial practice of not sending letters to suicide soldiers

Obama Urged To Ditch Policy Of Not Sending Condolence Letters To Military Suicide Families -- The Daily Mail

President Barack Obama is under pressure to scrap the policy of not sending condolence letters to the families of servicemen who commit suicide.

Currently military men and women who kill themselves receive full military honours, but their families are not sent the traditional condolence letter from the President.

But in a petition signed by 10 democrats and one Republican senator, the President was urged to drop 'this hurtful policy'.

The call comes as military officials told a U.S. Senate committee the suicide hotline got its highest number of calls ever in April, a total of 14,000.

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My Comment: I have mixed feelings on this issue. On the one hand I believe that there should be two letters .... one for those who are killed in combat, and another for those who committed suicide and/or non-combat death. On the other hand, a person who is killed in an accident in a combat zone should receive the same full honors as one who was killed by the enemy.

As I said .... I have mixed feelings (and ideas) on this topic.