Commentary: Halting vet suicides requires culture change

In April, my Army unit that served in Afghanistan passed a dark milestone: We've now lost more men to suicide than we lost in combat.

During a 485-day deployment in 2006-07, a single member of our platoon was killed (though many, myself included, were wounded — we had an 85 percent casualty rate).
But since returning home, three members of my platoon have taken their own lives. To grapple with the fact that we lost three times as many men to post-war suicide than to combat is to begin to grasp the true burden of war that veterans carry.

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