"The US Veterans Administration puts the number of soldiers or ex-servicemen taking their own lives at around 22 a day. That is over 8,000 military-related suicides every year – more than the number of fatalities among American troops serving in purported combat zones.
Tens of thousands of US military personnel return from the American killing fields abroad deeply traumatized by what they have committed or have witnessed. These individuals are often discarded in post-military life to endure poverty, family breakdown, unemployment, drug addiction and homelessness – beneath a heap of psychological damage. And if they confess to what they may have witnessed while on duty, they run the risk of persecution behind bars for being “a traitor”."
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