I saw this story from the Associated Press which was reported on RawStory.com it states that more than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted.
The VA teamed up with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to launch the hot line last July after years of criticism that the VA wasn't doing enough to help wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is good news for our returning vets, finally the government is starting to take seriously the mental health issues which are effecting our returning soldiers. It is a crying shame that our men and women who are returning from the front of the "War on Terror" in such conditions that so many of them have considered taking their own lives.
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