Comments on: Soldier Suicide Attempts Skyrocket

CBS News And Washington Post: Staggering New Army Numbers Show Serious Problem

[micma-2009]

Don''''t worry America, these thousands of broken Americans coming home from the Bush/Republican boondoggle aren''''t going to need any help. Bush is going to send them all home with a nice little "support the troops" bumper sticker. It will all be fine.


You can go back to sleep now. It was all just a bad dream.

[mcv57]

. . . go to Iraq!

[gigglygibbon]

Honestly I don''t think until you have served in the military you can really judge how ppl deal with it. I dont care if you are a spouse or child its different being a service member.. and its usually harder on the lower ranks usually e4 and below

[armywifee7]

So she tried to resign which was to be granted Until she found out that there would be limited benefits. So when that money train was derailed she and her father opted to use CBS! PATHETIC!!!

[billp37]

Suicides in the army?

http://www.prosefights.org/banderet/banderet.htm


And do you want to know

How the Iraq/Iran War Got Started

http://www.prosefights.org/thecanadian/thecanadian.htm#gotstarted

[micma-2009]

Go back to sleep America.

[j31478]

I''m so sorry for the parents not being able to see their daughter she needs them, more now than ever.

[micma-2009]

Don''t worry America, these thousands of broken Americans coming home from the Bush/Republican boondoggle aren''t going to need any help. Bush is going to send them all home with a nice little "support the troops" bumper sticker. It will all be fine.

[j31478]

Thank you so much for your story. But someone has to stay on this and help our men and women who are serving our country . My son killed himself while serving in the air guard he was full time and they knew he was having problems and did nothing. Let alone notify me who was down as 1st to notify.Please stay on this story and maybe someone else can be saved too. thank you.

[taylpatr]

Maybe if ANY of the people that are pushing this war had actually done some combat time themselves, they would be a little more understanding of the problems these kids are facing. But since every person on the Bush team is either a coward or a draft dodger or both, as in the case of Bush and Cheney, it ain''t gonna happen. I pray for these kids. I prayed for Bush and Cheney too, but they''re still sucking air, so I guess it didn''t work.

[trexie20]

According to internal Army documents, the number has gone from less than 500 in 2002 to more than 2,000 last year. The number of actual suicides is also climbing, and the Army''s suicide rate is higher than at any time in the past 25 years.

Why don''t the Army give the actual number of suicides? are they ashamed to admit that they are torturing our soldiers like they are prisoners of war?
and this right here
"Her commander said in the charges that he brought, ''I realize that people have said that you were mentally ill, but this is an excuse for your actions.''"
does he not know that mental illness is a desease and is not controlable by the victim. A DESEASE IS NOT AN EXCUSE IT IS A DESEASE.
SEEMS TO ME THIS GUY IS NOT QUALIFIED FOR HIS POSITION IN THE ARMY, AND WHO EVER PROMOTED HIM TO THAT POSITIONED OUGHT TO BE KICKED OUT OF THE ARMY ALSO.
SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF JAR HEADS

[inventagod]

It all boils down to saluting a chimp and having to smile...

[theresaj22]

Thank you for your story on suicide and our soldiers. My son and many of his friends that are back from Iraq are struggling. The majority of them have turned to drinking, not my son, he''s the one that took a few down to the VA hospital for counseling. The VA cancels their appointments. They need help and I can see where our system fails our soldiers. I see more and more on the news about this but very little has been done to assist them.

[gigglygibbon]

Hi, my name is Tiffany Gibbon. I am currently serving in the Air Force. I was sexually assaulted by another airman in August. The Air Force handled it all wrong by not letting me move out of the dorms which the guy lived one floor down from me. They moved him away from me two months later. I became depressed and gained 40 lbs which I am trying to get off of me now even though I am still depressed. Today it came down my chain of command that I was too fat and I needed to keep a chart of all my food intake and workouts.

[sandyen]

Nobody wants to talk of this stuff... they''d rather examine photos to see whether Obama was "dissing" Hillary... will somebody get serious!

[sandyen]

It''s not just the Army soldiers who are desparately trying to cope with depression and thought of suicide (or worse)... I have a family member (Marine) going thru the same thing... so are his friends.