Will a new push to end veteran suicide have more success than past promises?
Leo Shane III
Carol Rasor-Cordero vividly remembers struggling to explain the problem of veterans suicide to several friends after her son Joseph, a Marine veteran, took his own life in 2017.
“At the funeral, I told them the number is 20 a day, and they told me they never knew the problem was that size,†she said. “That’s because no one likes to hear about suicide and no one wants to talk about it. We need to get past these stigmas.â€
The veterans suicide rate that has remained consistent over the last decade despite numerous large-scale Veterans Affairs programs aimed at finding solutions. According to department records, more veterans died by suicide from 2005 and 2017 (nearly 79,000) than the total number of U.S. troops who died in 30 years of war in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan (about 65,000).
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