The Reason for Veteran Suicides

Winner of Best Short Film of the Year and Best Editing for the Mitten Movie Project 2010, Royal Oak, MI
Official Selection of the 2010 Blue Water Film Festival
Official Selection of the 2011 Detroit Independent Film Festival, Central Florida Film Festival, Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, DC Shorts Film Festival

People think their soldiers return home to parades. I know better. And it's time you all learn.

This is the reason for veteran suicides. Broken families. Broken homes. Children legally kidnapped from their capable fathers due to bitterness and hatred from a failed marriage. When you rip children away from their parents, you commit the soul murder of two human beings: The child who will never know the true fullness of life, and the parent who loses their deepest connection with their kid.

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Suicide statistics gathered and verified by CBS.
All end statistics were verified and collected by a 20-year combat veteran sergeant in the US Army. Non-public records were used in the gathering of these statistics.
The federal government does not acknowledge the true numbers and its own statistics do not include Coast Guard, Reserve or National Guard. The public figure of 4.3% veteran divorce rate released is a cover up by the Pentagon. After all, if the standard rate for the population is 50%, how could there be such a drastic difference?

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[Ben Kotowicz]

This is a fictitious story and is not representative of veterans.

[Blake Kleiner]

Sorry, but you're wrong. This film was written by and inspired by the research of a 25 year combat veteran looking to find the reasoning behind the suicides happening around him - not the least of which was the man to whom this film is dedicated.

[Twinhit]

Look up Parental Alienation Syndrome - That's part of this scenerio - you might be a victim, too.

[Blake Kleiner]

We have covered this topic as well. Look up "Phantom Holiday" on our channel.

[Yakenjokin]

What kind of asswipe dislikes this??

Oh thats right!! A feminst

[CrazyPolishGuy1102]

In your opinion do you think alot of anti troop backlash could have a great effect also such as protesting groups who do nothing but shame soldiers and call them murderers?

[UnitedPebbles]

Then I saw some kids down stair handpicking trash then I got worried what if it was my son or daughter? they growing up to learn to hate me because I "mixed" the trash? it caused me heart ache and then rage and then calculated hate that would eventually lead to their doom. Yeah, my life is complicated as ever and ever.

[UnitedPebbles]

I actually, on my break time and lunch time, separate the trash like crazy, like the sign said (or the good book said). If I was in the military, that "could" deemed treason!! Jigga, I could have been killed if I didn't listened to THE ORDER(S). (not that listened to order prevent you from dying, anyway, but they said it help!!)

Damn right, it was on my own time. What the harm, right? well it leads to extreme fat-igue, depression, and putrid hatred for management. Guess that what you feel?

[UnitedPebbles]

Then again, the brasses at the Pentagon is and are always right. The geniuses!!!

[UnitedPebbles]

But then again, who paying for the time you separating the trash? the employer! your portion of int. trash to the separated portion could be negligible in the eyes of the receivers. Maybe I should have find a solution & prevent that from happen in the first place.

[UnitedPebbles]

It could lead to insanity, obsession, and other things. Excessive worry lead to anxiety especially if you the type that like to analyze. Not everybody is a Marine and just listened coldly to orders. We have brains, you know? You can't keep people from having an opinion.

[UnitedPebbles]

It's the ethics that instilled in most of us. I guess they should have pray and pray that you did the right things and if not He will forgive you as you was weak or not wary of a BETTER solution. It's liked when they keep asking me to dump trash without prejudice of the content despite a big warning sign telling one to separate it otherwise it could lead to other consequences. So what to do?

[Poe00069]

These men risk or sacrifice their lives for an ideal that not longer exists, if it ever really did. It's too bad they have to learn the hard way on how little they are valued by their society. Young men need to educate themselves, on the way things actually work and decide, with open eyes, if it actually makes any sense to fight for such a system.

[Tony Hernandez]

Please contact me regarding this video. I am a producer at vspann. My name is tony at vspann dot org

[thundertorque]

I've never been a soldier. I've been locked up for a nearly successful suicide, after several attempts. It took years for life to improve, for my survival instinct to recover. Frustration is not a reason to end any life. If you can't survive, there is help. There are things worth suffering for.