News — veterans suicide

Three veterans shot and killed themselves to death at Veterans Affairs facilities within five days of each other earlier this month. On April 5, 2019 an unnamed veteran shot himself inside his car in the parking lot of the Dublin, Georgia VA Medical Center. Then on April 6, 2019 right outside the main entrance of the Decatur, Georgia VA Medical Center another veteran shot and killed himself.  The last veteran shot himself in a crowded waiting room at an Austin, TX VA clinic on April 9, 2019. This veteran was transferred from a hospital in Temple, TX over 65 miles...

The Veteran Suicide rate has climbed to an estimated twenty-two veterans a day nationwide. Doing the simple math on that it means that nearly one veteran every hour will commit suicide. That means that 154 veterans a week commit suicide, 660 veterans a month commit suicide, and a staggering 7,920 veterans a year commit suicide. The World Health Organization released another report in 2017 that stated for every veteran that successfully commits suicide there are 20 more veterans that attempt to commit suicide. If you go by that report that means that nearly 480 veterans attempt suicide each day! This...