Perhaps, like his stance on gay marriage, President Obama's stance on soldier suicides can "evolve" into the only humane and thoughtful position -- that of sending condolences to the families of all troops who commit suicide.
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.22.2012
The time has come to challenge the military at the level of its reason for being. The time has come to add up its suicides, its war crimes and the rest of its horrific legacy. How long can it survive an honest accounting?
Posted 11.22.2011
DENVER -- A third of military personnel who committed suicide last year had told at least one person they planned to take their own lives, a newly rel...
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- The disturbing number of suicides in the military now has a face It's Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, a high-spirited Marine who shot and killed ...
Leila Levinson | Posted 11.09.2011
As this week is National Suicide Prevention Week, and Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, let us grieve those who have taken their own lives as a result of their service in Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
Leila Levinson | Posted 09.08.2011
The president clearly believes we need to remove the stigmas of war's mental health consequences. But it is striking that his statement completely ignores the 71 percent of the suicides that occur after service.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 09.07.2011
Only 25 of the 155 suicides in the U.S. Army last year took place in the field of combat. So why won't the White House send condolence letters to the families of troops who took their lives outside a war zone?
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.05.2011
The White House says that families of service members who commit suicide while deployed abroad are now getting condolence letters from the president j...
Matthew Boulay | Posted 05.25.2011
I fear that we have yet to learn the lesson of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: we cannot allow ourselves to lose interest in the soldier and the veteran even if we have lost interest in the war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- As the National Guard and Army Reserve grapple with an increasing number of suicides amongst members, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) reintroduc...
CQ Weekly | John Donnelly | Posted 05.25.2011
For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted 05.25.2011
Fort Carson Army post reported a 33% decrease in its suicide rate from 2009 to 2010, officials said on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. James Doty told the AP o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — In 2008, a young sergeant named Coleman S. Bean took his life. After completing his first tour of duty in Iraq, he had come home an...
Chaplain Mark R. Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011
I have deployed and experienced firsthand the aftermath of soldiers returning home from war. With numbers of these men and women wounded mentally, emotionally and psychologically, devastation is often not far off.
msn.com | Jim Miklaszewski | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. Army on Thursday reported a record number of suicides in a single month among active duty, Guard and Reserve troops, despite an aggressive pr...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Struggling with sharp increases in suicides among U.S. military forces, the Pentagon is joining a new national effort to reduce the...
Cilla McCain | Posted 05.25.2011
There are hundreds of military families determined to convince the U.S. government of the need for a major overhaul on the investigative policies and procedures in unattended soldier deaths.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Rushing to stem historically high rates of military suicides, the service branches set up prevention programs that lacked strategic...
Chris Rodda | Posted 05.25.2011
The military's practice of substituting religion for professional mental health care for PTSD and suicide prevention has become increasingly frequent, with alarming reports coming in from active duty troops and veterans.
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House panel that oversees the Veterans Affairs Department has asked VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain an appa...
Brigadier General (Ret) Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
For some families, this Memorial Day will be especially hard. Their loved ones didn't die the hero's death. They were one of 160 soldiers last year who committed suicide, despite the military's unprecedented effort to stem the tide.
Joe Pantoliano | Posted 11.17.2011
On the flight back to JFK, I was consumed with thoughts about the plight of the soldiers, my own journey, and mental dis-ease, the taboo topic that had brought our paths together.
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
Last August, Gregg Keesling was at home watching President Obama's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in which the president stated that one of hi...
McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have etched indelible scars on the psyches of many of the nation's servicemen and women, and ...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.22.2012