Military Suicides

Why Obama Doesn't Write Families Of Soldiers Who Commit Suicide

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics


Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports on a longstanding White House policy that Presidents do not send condolence letters to families of U.S. soldie...

Soldier Suicides This Year To Top Those In 2008

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could...

See No Evil

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


Robert Koehler

The heavily armed, trained killer was "under stress" when he raped, then murdered a 14-year-old girl and tried to burn her body, after having murdered her parents and 7-year-old sister.

Sentencing of Steve Green in Abeer Death, Command Structure In Iraq

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 06.22.2009 | World


Gail McGowan Mellor

Enlisted people moreover are only one dimension. The truly dangerous distortion is at the top, in the command structures.

Army Suicides Increase Again

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007 at the highest rate on record, and the toll is climbing ever higher this year as long war d...