Vets

Despite the overall drop in U.S. deaths in Iraq there has been a spate of "noncombat" fatalities there in the past week. Also, Iraq vets continue to kill themselves at home at an alarming rate.

Hall's legislation to upgrade the V.A.'s disability rating process was unanimously passed by the House this week.

I've written often here about my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son Ryan Maseth was electrocuted and died in Iraq. She finally testified before Democrats in Congress yesterday.

As some may know, I have followed here, for months, the saga of my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son, Ryan Maseth, was electrocuted and died in Iraq se...

On June 23, Sean Webster's body was found in an isolated part of his base. The Naval Criminal Investigate Service is probing the death as a "probable" suicide.

The military has finally, after nine months, announced the results of its probe into the death by gunshot of a gay soldier in Afghanistan.

"I'm not going back to Iraq," Army Sgt. Benjamin Miller, 24, told friends back home in Minnesota. And, indeed, he is not. Three days ago, he was buri...

Another young U.S. soldier, this one age 19, has apparently killed himself in Iraq, and at least two other reports of "noncombat" deaths in the past week may fall in the same category.

A horrible truth has emerged: It turns out that Spc. Kamisha Block was actually murdered, and the killer, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris, then turned the gun on himself.

Jeffrey McKinney's family believes that if his chain of command had paid closer attention to the symptoms, his death might have been avoided.

An issue I have been writing about for years has finally hit center stage -- the disturbing rate of PTSD among veterans, the surging suicide epidemic and new revelations about the high number of soldiers on meds.

In recent months, the issue of suicides among troops in Iraq, and returnees at home, has -- after long being ignored -- earned wide attention in the U...

As press reports proliferate concerning Iraq vet suicides, officials are encouraging troops to get help, even if they go to civilian therapists and don't report it to the military.

Family members say Chad Oligschlaeger, age 21, was taking eight different types of medications to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving two tours in Iraq.

President George W. Bush, asked in a press conference why Republicans in the House and Senate are increasingly defying him, proven by the fact that do...

He loved his country so much he named his son America. And this week he killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in Arizona.

It is being billed as the first full-scale testimony in Congress by anti-Iraq war veterans, and it's a shame it has taken this long. The statement by...

A week of hearings on the official cover-up of the alarming spike in suicides among veterans of the Iraq war has ended with both the Veterans Affairs chief and the V.A. mental health director still holding their jobs.

I don't know yet how Christy died, but this comes on the heels of a Veterans Administration cover-up of the shockingly high number of suicide attempts by vets.

She is still officially listed among the "nonhostile -- accident" victims. So the mystery remains.

One Iraq fatality that doesn't yet count -- let's call him #4001 -- offers more of a clue to the true dimensions of the war than most of the rest.

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command determined Sgt. James Musack died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Oddly, he was due to finish his tour one week later.

The mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq this past January filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, the defense contractor that was in charge of inspecting the wiring at the base where a soldier died -- from electrocution.

One Iraq death haunts me, above all others: Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq -- and she died by her own hand after objecting to interrogation methods used on prisoners.

As I have documented over the years -- few others in the media were interested until recently -- suicides in Iraq now total in the hundreds with many more than that among the returnees.