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US VETERANS SUICIDE EPIDEMIC

Excerpts taken from The Washington Free Beacon.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) planted 1,892 US flags at the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Thursday to honor veterans who had killed themselves this year alone, since January 1^st, which is an average of 22 per day.

Retired Lt Col Dar Place said, “I know there’s a lot of folks out there that might think that suicide is a scapegoat, it’s an escape ...