Veteran Suicides An Epidemic (CBS News)

[58ADAGIO]

"Fighting wars for decades to come"? More WMD/Terrorist incitements in the works? Four of my family have served and two in war. None feel proud, none feel they were figthing with a god on their side. My father inlaw served in WWII He claimed pts until his death at age 89.

[gamersxs]

Maybe they aren't killing themselves, maybe they know too much

[ZehGfather]

@gamersxs That's what I'm thinking.. The 'treatment'/ 'rehab' for soldiers is a fraud.. They're just interested if you're still able to kill or not. When they answer: no, they'll be monitored by the Gov. so they can't rebel against. My robuste theory..

[jtuttle907]

we need a good vietnam vet to stand up and exercise there right to free speech, we need to fix the united states. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

[verynice420]

look what happened tuesday

[Skyheartstar777]

Does anyone wonder why so many want to commit suicide? Is it because so many forget about them and do not understand what they went through and the emotional trauma. Why do they not have seminars in these hospitals by religious clergy telling them the value of life created by God and that suicide is a mortal sin, it is murder of one self. When people go to war, as it states in Deuteronomy, God told the people do not be afraid because I will go with you.

[lefrebure]

The problem is that our soldiers are being lied as to why they are going to war. They are being brainwashed that every muslim is a Hadji and they are being told to kill innocent women and children. Furthermore our own country is using chemicals and nerve agents against our own soldiers and planting civilian workers right next to them while being paid 5 times as much. When a soldier returns he realizes he has been duped into killing innocent people and just can't live with that feeling.

[piercingbryan84]

@lefrebure

ahem...no, haji is the enemy overseas. i was also never told to kill innocent women and children. we killed men with rpg's and ak's...after they fired upon us. y speak if you have not been there?

[djassimilator]

three times he is useless thats acry for help or hand outs.

[Mrpantymelt]

Thats because they realize they murdered people in the name of oil.

[audiojester]

@Mrpantymelt Dont speak for me or any other US Marine/service member, ass clown. Unless you are one... which I doubt you are Mr Pantymelt

[283inc]

wonder how it feels to come home after a few years away and seeing guns on the street when you return i dont think vets feel like heroes when they get stopped in checkpoints and are classified as terrorist

[vikkipollard5]

sounds like more soldiers are dying from post traumatic stress than bullets. we need to find other ways to settle our disputes.

[angeldustxiii]

that guy looks like some kinda freak.how does he smile like that knowing what they do to the soldiers.

[MaryOMackie]

THe VA is giving them hard psychotropic pharmaceutical drugs which give these people a schizoid break, that combined with the traumatic memories of war and depression, and the inclination toward violence and availability of a weapon, it's a deadly combination.

[magnummaid]

This is the socialized healthcare many people want. This is the corrupt federal Gov., This is the intrenched hand of big Pharma. I have no doubt the use of highly dangerous pharmaceutical prescrptions contributes to many deaths , both suicide and other ; over prescribed, horrible reactions between prescrptions and the effects of drugs like prozac have been shown to have an absurd amount of suicide inducing side effects. Our men and women in the service have been/are being used as guinea pigs,

[Harryclownie]

western society isn't interested in re-establishing veterans into society, these men are expendable to the elite of wall st. There are only two types of citizen; the consumer and the soldier. the elite rulers don't want world peace or brotherhood they want us to keep killing and consuming and dying while they cash in Billions of dollars.

[jimmhoo]

its more deeper than that, they make the money, right now money is control, and people do anything for money

[wakeupanddo]

@Harryclownie remember its just money they want it is Power and world domination and manipulation. In war there are certain things that are done to them. It is easier to have them kill themselves rather than take of them for the rest of there lives. The suicides are not initially self directed, believe this. Since when did post war make a suicide watch ! Vietnam war was long hard and trying to the men that served yet, there was not as many suicide attempts as there are now among vets. Think!

[lustfordeath]

This is a depressing statistic.

[kuruptsoul]

hahah, does that dude think his double chin is his chin?

[majortom321]

HAHAHA ..

I was in disbelief .... this guy is epic

[1AfricanQueenE9]

KMT this shit pissis me of b4 plp go 2 the Army they shld no wht they r getting their self into.

Not saying all soldiers do this but sum go 2 war n do wicked things they dnt knw tht they have innocent bld on their hand n its that bld tht will fight them n make them wanna commit suicide.

[formless777]

Wasn't Kirsten Dunst in a movie about this ? I think Sophia Coppola directed it.

[dieper2dieper]

paul hardcastle - nineteen.

"many soldiers suffered complaints such as alienation, hate, rage and guilt.

some even came to suicidal thoughts"

no wonder, the us sends it's hitlerjügend soldiers to push buttons like in a videogame.

later when/if they grow some brains they realise what they have done and conclude

they are stone cold killers who deserve a death penalty.

and people who joint the army arn't the smartest, america is glad to get rid of them.

[RegimeKillerZero]

in some cases that may be true but many soldiers  are very misguided idealistic youth and we are not glad to lose them i dont dispute ur ideas just your conclusion

[dieper2dieper]

ok, maybe not happy to loose them,

maybe it would be better if the lived their whole lifes as jarheads and keep fighting for the US

but when they do grow a brain,

it would be better if they killed themselfs instead of going on a rampage outside killing

people in a frenzy.

well, thats what you get when you live in a nation built on war and plunder.

i just feel sorry for those mislead kid's

who are ushered into service.

[TheCor4367]

As a veteran I can tell you that the number of soldiers who are against these wars might shock you. I was one of them, hell half of my entire platoon was.

My views changed about a year or so after I finished boot camp, I realized how the game works.

It isnt that these kids are idiots, its that they're hit with so much propaganda they have no idea what the truth is, and I was one of them among thousands if not millions.

So not all American troops are bloodlusting sociopaths.

[dieper2dieper]

not to worry, i was young and in a army once too

i know how it works.

i'm just thinking about hitlers hitlerjugend and why they were so effective.

lucky not all soldiers are like this,

some even start to think wth are they doing anyway.

nevertheless, as you said, these kids are being brainwashed by propaganda,

it just can't be a good thing.

a lot of other countries have a militairy made out of older professionals who are actually trained to deal with moral dilemma's.

why not in the US ?

[Leviathong]

No, this is NOT what you should get! You're always with yourself, when you're there and when you come back. It is harder to relate when you come back, that is all! True as well, that life is a journey or a lesson that needs to be learned to the fullest. That is why we are purposely where we are, because that is the lesson that must be learned.

dieper2dieper you are not right, it would be better to adress experience consciously and deliberatly to fulfill the experience of being in this world!

[dieper2dieper]

the lesson could be that violence doesn't pay off ?

experiencing it delibertly doesn't teach the right thing.

[GeorgeFlush322]

it is cheaper this way, thats for shizzle.

A funeral is cheaper than a life-time payment, simple economics.

[adamjjj]

You are a total cunt for saying that.

[Manuman59]

stop the war in Iraq?

Arrêtons cette guerre de merde qui détruit beaucoup de jeunes américains. Trop sans doute, parce qu'ils combattent un ennemi invisible et impitoyable, qui les renvoie profondemment traumatisé, quans ce n'est pas handicapés...

[agitcam]

Of course, if a vet kills himself then he doesn't collect anymore benefits.

[Otacrack]

What do you fucking expect when you have people fighting pointless wars like Vietnam and Iraq...Shit man this is why i hate bullcrap Idealogy...

[sodoku50]

As much as I love yous, this is what pisses me off with White folks! Between smoking, drinking, disease, wars, drugs and abortion.. this is where your numbers are going! Ya'll have gotta take better care off yourselves. Stay around, cause I GOTTA have a White woman in my life!

[mattGK]

Anyone else scared of that guys second chin destroying earth as we know it?

[memberloginloginhere]

Lol MattG, you see the fucking beard he was growing on that thing?

[mattGK]

You mean the fly trap? how else do you think it feeds? A chin needs to eat ya know.

[russia21]

umm how about all those experiments they do w/ soldiers?? JUST like in the Gulf, they tested lots of things on soldiers on purpose. It's all part of the NWO. It's not a fucking BS loonie thing, we are going down, we r loosing rights, this is crazy how Americans r so asleep

[semperfilau]

you're an idiot.

[blender7]

im a bit confused, shurely the veteran suicide rate wasnt so high after WW2..... what happened? those veterans saw worse things then our men have seen recently, although they have seen some pretty horrific things none the less.

[Lms305]

you have no right to sit there and compare the atrocities soldiers fought in wwII and what soldiers have fought today...war is hell regardless, but in the case of iraq and afghanistan, point blank, it's NOT war, it's genocide... close to 1 million dead iraqi civilians,CIVILIANS, that means men women AND children...I could (only) imagine a number like that really fuckin with the guys who were there...

[memberloginloginhere]

LMs you are an idiot. People like you will always protest war. If you had been alive during WWII you would have been protesting that war too.

1 million Iraqis dead? Well guess who killed the majority of them? Other Iraqis you fucktard. Watch the news once, 20 civilians killed by IED, or 15 killed from a suicide bomber. Go throw that number around at your next dirty liberal convention because no one cares here.

[GeorgeFlush322]

youre a redneck, you should see the world, dude. cheers from euro-zone.

[dieper2dieper]

of course some irakies are supported by the US

with weapons/money/training.

so the US can say, : "we didn't do it"

letting other people do the dirty work for them.

[bubbleoh7]

Holy crap.

[wiixxxproducers]

:o....