More US military personnel have taken their OWN lives than have died in action

By GottaLaff



According to wsws.org, in the last year more than 330 US armed forces members committed suicide. More than have been killed by the enemy. We don't hear much about this, do we? It isn't pleasant. It makes us remember another side of war, the personal one. The one that takes lives when bullets and IEDs don't.

Suicide is not painless. Not to family members, not to fellow troops, not to friends, and not to the person who succumbs to it, who are in more pain than they might let on:

What these figures should tell us is that there is something fundamentally deranged about Washington's "war on terror" - which is probably why western news media prefer to ignore the issue. How damning is it about such military campaigns that the number of US soldiers who take their own lives outnumber those killed by enemy combatants.

What is even more disturbing is that the official figures only count victims of suicide among serving personnel. Not included are the many more veterans - officially classed a civilians - who take their own lives.

This needs to be covered more. That it hasn't been is an example of egregious negligence by the media.

And thank you to all our service members and their friends and families. I can't begin to imagine the horrors they've witnessed or the pain they've had to endure.