18 veterans commit suicide/day in 2008 and still ... 18 veterans commit suicide/day in 2010 - something strange about the number of suicides/day never changing.
Ok, so you did my research, I still conclude because there is precisely "something strange about 18 suicides per day," this article is FOS! However, when I first read the story I thought they were only referring to the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. But the term "VETERAN" throws this into a whole different realm. There is also disparaging data between actual suicides and "suicide attempts." Look at your google links and see the trash liberal Anti-American sites that are spewing this study.
Then we get CBS claiming there's "25 million veterans" @ 6759 suicide attempts per year that's less then 2/10ths of 1%. 18 per day compared to the overall average number of citizens in the country who attempt suicide is actually consistent with suicide attempt rate in the whole US among all citizens. And finally this:
In an e-mail late Monday to CBS News, Katz wrote that the reason the numbers were not released was due to questions about the consistency and reliability of the findings - and that there was no public cover up involved.
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 – With more than 6,000 veterans committing suicide every year –- and 98 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan taking their own lives during fiscal 2009 alone -- the Department of Veterans Affairs is redoubling its outreach to veterans and promoting its toll-free suicide-prevention hotline.
National statistics show that veterans constitute about 20 percent of the 30,000 to 32,000 U.S. deaths each year from suicide. Of an average of 18 veterans who commit suicide each day, about five receive care through the VA health-care system. More than 60 percent of those five had diagnosed mental-health conditions.
Read the rest of the story at the link below:
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=58879