"Program targets veteran suicides"
"by Anna Badkhen, Globe Staff | March 31, 2008
.... The program... is run by the Department of Veterans Services, funded by the Department of Public Health, and known by its acronym, SAVE....
SAVE members say they find inspiration in the story of the Belchertown Marine Jeffrey Lucey, an Iraq veteran who killed himself in 2004 after struggling to find help for his post-traumatic stress disorder. When Lucey and his family asked the federal Department of Veterans Affairs for help, "we found a system that threw impediments in the way of his getting services," said the Marine's father, Kevin Lucey.
Good Lord, that is just down the road from here!!!
"We asked the Lucey family: 'What could have saved your son Jeffrey from taking his life?' " said one of the program's members, James Crosby, a Dorchester resident and a former Marine who has been confined to a wheelchair since shrapnel from a 122mm rocket pierced his torso in Iraq in 2004. The Luceys spoke with Crosby and his colleagues for hours, sharing a vision of an agency that helps veterans receive the benefits and services to which they are entitled and eases their transition into civilian life....
You know, SUPPORTING the TROOPS!!!!
I may rage in hurt and bitterness sometimes, but that is the FIRST ITEM in my military budget!!
THE VERY TOP PRIORITY: Getting veterans the health care and services they deserve!!!
Not CORPORATE WELFARE for WAR PROFITEERS!!!!!
Massachusetts has no record of how many of its suicides were committed by veterans. But nationally, at least 283 combat veterans who left the military between October 2001 and the end of 2005 have committed suicide. Among current members of the military, the suicide rate nearly doubled from 9.1 confirmed suicides per 100,000 troops in 2001 to 17.3 in 2006.
This year, the Army reported that at least 121 Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, compared with the 99 soldiers who killed themselves in 2006....
How come the lying MSM isn't giving us the TRUE NUMBERS, readers?"CBS discovered that in 2005 alone "there were at least 6,256 [suicides] among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week in just one year."
Why are they providing partial and confusing information?
I think we all KNOW WHY at this point, hmmmm!
All we ever hear about in the Zionist-controlled War Dailies is the fictitious Muslim suicide bomber!
