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To: TimF who wrote (450966)1/26/2009 3:13:22 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574046
 
with vets not being particularly prone to being homeless or having higher than normal suicide and murder rates.

There is much that's wrong in your post but I don't have the time to go through each line and point it out. But here is just one example.......the suicide rate is much higher for veterans:

Male veterans have higher suicide risk: study

Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:05pm EDT
By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Male U.S. veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide than people with no military service, and are more likely to kill themselves with a gun than others who commit suicide, researchers said on Monday.

read more..........

reuters.com

And btw, 30% of the soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from severe cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Those people are more prone to suicide and to hurting someone else. Its a terrible psychosis that can plague them for years.

Its stuff like this that the right likes to gloss over. And its what makes them inhuman and inhumane.