CNN
Sept. 21, 2013
Every day, 22 veterans take their own lives. That’s a suicide every 65
minutes. As shocking as the number is, it may actually be higher.
The figure, released by the Department of Veterans Affairs in February, is
based on the agency’s own data and numbers reported by 21 states from 1999
through 2011. Those states represent about 40% of the U.S. population. The other
states, including the two largest (California and Texas) and the fifth-largest
(Illinois), did not make data available.
Who wasn’t counted?
People like Levi Derby, who hanged himself in his grandfather’s garage in
Illinois on April 5, 2007. He was haunted, says his mother, Judy Caspar, by an
Afghan child’s death. He had handed the girl a bottle of water, and when she
came forward to take it, she stepped on a land mine.
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
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