Suicide Toll May Exceed Combat Deaths

Bloomberg.com: Science

This is a thought-provoking article. Too often we focus on the cost in lives separately between combat and post-trauma suicide. But the outcome is the same.

At the Foundation, we continue to see veterans from Vietnam experiencing symptoms. The one who come to us have generally learned coping mechanisms that have worked more or less. How many did not learn to cope and have died in the past 40+ years?

We will likely never know the true cost of war.