Source: The Buffalo News 10/11/2015
By: Michele Brown
For most of the past 15 years, military conflict has been a reality for our country’s service men and women. Day in and day out, we have seen news coverage and read scores of reports about the fighting in war-torn parts of the world where America’s military has bravely served the cause of freedom.
Now, a generation of veterans are bringing the hardships of war home and continuing to fight an all-too-often silent battle, with far too many brave heroes becoming casualties of war far from the battlefield.
A recent front-page story in the New York Times described a Marine Corps battalion devastated by suicide. The article stated that, of the 1,200 Marines deployed in Afghanistan with the Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment in 2008, at least 13 have since taken their own lives. That haunting statistic is nearly 14 times the suicide rate for all Americans.
While the facts are beyond troubling, the article focuses necessary attention on the lengths to which veterans are going to help each other in order to stop what has become a troubling epidemic.
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