Iraq Veteran Suicide

WATCH: Iraq Veterans Give Advice To Returning Troops

Posted 12.14.2011

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The end of the war in Iraq will bring some 40,000 soldiers home. But returning for some, means entering an entirely new battlefield. Post-traumati...

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Veteran Kills Self, Previously Advocated That Vets Are Not Alone

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 06.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Handsome and friendly, Clay Hunt so epitomized a vibrant Iraq veteran that he was chosen for a public service announcement reminding vet...

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Bloomberg 3? NYC Veterans 0

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

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Luis Carlos Montalván

Ask any veteran and he or she will tell you that over the past several years New York City's Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs has done little or nothing to assist the hundreds of thousands of veterans in the city.

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"You Saved My Life" ... A Reason to Keep Reporting

Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Glantz

After six years of war in Iraq, it is easy to get exhausted and depressed, then something happens that suddenly gives all your work meaning, that gives you the strength to continue.

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Violent Veterans, the Big Picture

Helen Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

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Helen Benedict

Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.

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Diary Of An Iraq Vet's Suicide

SLWeekly | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was just after midnight on Dec. 31, 2007, and bitterly cold outside, when two Ogden police officers knocked on the door of Jason Ermer's home. E...

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Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths

ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda,...

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Suicide Rates Increase Among Iraq And Afghanistan Vets

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.17.2011

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Hundreds of troops have come home from war, left the military and committed suicide. That is the finding of preliminary Veterans Affairs Department r...

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