**between 2001-2009 4 million veterans committed suicide

[milwaukee mike]

[milwaukee mike]

government/military doesn't discuss this problem too often but i've seen it firsthand

[bonzaii]

I call BS. That number seems way too high.

[milwaukee mike]

I call BS. That number seems way too high.

i hope you're right bonzaii

it does seem too high based on only about 2 million active military at any given time... but pretty much everyone i know that has been on active military since 9/11 is either dead or has serious ptsd

[Chi_archie]

Mike

check your facts.

quick search tells me that about 45,000 Americans commit suicide per year.

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

[Ted Sheckler]

i hope you're right bonzaii

it does seem too high based on only about 2 million active military at any given time... but pretty much everyone i know that has been on active military since 9/11 is either dead or has serious ptsd

My cousin has some serious ptsd, but everyone else I know that was in the military is still alive and seem to be getting along just fine.

[MaddyMax]

thats what these consipracy theorists do...they take things out of context to support their feeling.

the 4 million number is for the entire world......

[milwaukee mike]

glad to hear that number is way too high

maybe they meant "contemplated suicide"? still hasn't been fixed on pepperdine's website

https://newsroom.pepperdine.edu/magazine/2017/04/silent-treatment

[jjgold]

Terrible