Help Save US Veterans
As suicide rates unfortunately increase amongst returning U.S. Veterans, it’s high time people start reaching out to these people to help them re-adjust to the world here at home. Sad as it is, many of them return to the realization that our nation is falling apart, being devoured by a parasite from within. Many will come home to find that the American people no longer support the wars, and the facts bear out that they were indeed started over a bunch of lies. These people will have watched their friends fight, with some of them suffering and dying, only to come home and realize that the same enemy who started the wars, is wrecking our homeland.
There is no nice way to say these things. America is in deep trouble, and the best way to honor our troops is to first, bring them home. Second, bring them to Real Oath Keepers where they can learn the whole story and finally understand where it all went wrong. If we do not deal with these usurpers, more of our people will die dominating our infiltrator’s enemies for them. Many more will come home and commit suicide, and many will come home severely injured or in a box.
This is not acceptable to anyone with a conscience. Show your support for the troops by helping them identify the real enemy. Help them unite with us to rid ourselves of these murderous traitors once and for all, but that can’t happen until these historical usurpers are finally brought to light. Our Basic Training manual will more than fulfill this purpose.
We are Real Oath Keepers, because we are the ONLY ONES to identify and face up to the real problem. Those other guys wouldn’t dare point out what we do. They are like this Shinseki creep, they don’t care about you, or any of us for that matter. Help us save our Soldiers and Veterans by teaching them the truth, and giving them a chance to make up for the pain the enemy has caused us all.
Source: News4Jax
Date: 11JAN10
WASHINGTON — Home from war and out of the military, young male veterans appear to be committing suicide at a higher rate.
The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday that preliminary data reflects that the suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old male veterans has increased significantly. It said the rate went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007. VA officials said they assume that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
If there is a bright spot in the data, it’s that in 2007 veterans in the group who used VA health care were less likely to commit suicide than those who did not. That’s a change from 2005.
In recent years, the VA has hired thousands of new mental health professionals and established a suicide hot line credited with “rescues” of nearly 6,000 veterans and military members in distress.
The military has also struggled with an increase in suicides, with the Army seeing a record number last year. While the military frequently releases such data, it has been more difficult to track suicide information on veterans once they’ve left active duty.
The VA calculated the numbers using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers from 16 states. In 2005, the rate per 100,000 veterans among men ages 18-29 was 44.99, compared with 56.77 in 2007, the VA said. It did not release data for other population groups.
At a suicide prevention conference on Monday in Washington, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said his agency needs to do a better job of understanding what led to each suicide. He said he’d also like to see more stringent protocol put into place at VA facilities about how to handle a potentially suicidal veteran, similar to what’s done with someone who’s having a heart attack.
He noted that of the more than 30,000 suicides each year in America, about 20 percent are committed by veterans.
“Why do we know so much about suicides but still know so little about how to prevent them?” Shinseki said. “Simple question, but we continue to be challenged.”
