Don Smith VETERAN TRUTHSEEKER

Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 3264 Location: Puget Sound
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:53 am Post subject: War’s Hidden Death Toll: After Service, Veteran Deaths & |
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War’s Hidden Death Toll: After Service, Veteran Deaths & Suicides Surge
As of this month, over 5,700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. That count does not include those veterans who commit suicide or die from war-related issues after returning home from military service. Well, a new investigation into California veterans and active service members reveals that three times as many veterans are dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. According to the report published in the Bay Citizen and the New York Times, more than 1,000 California veterans under 35 died between 2005 and 2008. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/18/wars_hidden_death_toll_after_service _________________ " A bayonet is a tool with a worker at both ends."- Lenin
Patriotism is a manifestation of the Stockholm Syndrome.
"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
-Thoreau
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