Where does the 128K number come from?
I believe it’s arrived by extrapolating the “22 per day” out from the 2013 statistics.
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2427
But from what I’ve read it’s possible that the 22 a day number may actually be lower than the actual number.
What all of the stories I’ve read seem to agree on is that the number has spiked alarmingly since 2007.
http://time.com/304/report-suicide-rate-soars-among-young-vets/
“- The number of male veterans under the age of 30 who commit suicide jumped by 44 percent between 2009 and 2011, the most recent year for which data was available, according to numbers released Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. -”