Preventing suicides in the military


	Preventing suicides in the military

wiccantexan

10-4-2009 11:22 PM

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military, suicide

wiccantexan says:

This is NOT the place to make political rants about the current or previous administration. Thank you.

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10-4-2009 11:38 PM

ljsdesign

Mrs Ruocco is a strong woman.

10-5-2009 12:52 AM

lollipop10

How very sad.

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When John Ruocco, a Marine Corps major,<A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/millions-considered-attempted-suicide-2008-study-finds/story?id=8602511"> committed suicide</A> after a <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7075653&page=1">deployment in Iraq</A>, his wife, Kim, didn't hide from the issue.
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Instead, she read about it: books by mothers who had lost children to suicide, by people who had spent their careers studying suicide -- anything to help her understand the terrible event that had so irrevocably altered her family. She searched her memory of their 23 years as sweethearts and spouses, trying to figure out how the unthinkable had become possible.
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That kind of scrutiny sometimes can intensify sorrow, not lighten it. But through her grief, Mrs. Ruocco, now manager of suicide outreach and education programs for the nonprofit <A target="external" href="http://www.taps.org/">Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)</A>, has quietly become an important figure in the effort to respond to suicides by military personnel.
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