Record number of soldiers committed suicide last year


	Record number of soldiers committed suicide last year

BobbyDelray

1-31-2008 10:58 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34e01f9a-c98c-46a4-b49e-237be0178fd8/1DA7091A-E325-4011-B5EA-9EA303CEC4AC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html" href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html">A record number of active-duty soldiers killed themselves last year, according to <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003106.html"><EM>The Washington Post</EM></A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html"> The paper cites an internal Army study that shows 121 soldiers committed suicide in 2007. That's a 20% increase over the prior year</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html">The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed severe stress on the
Army, caused in part by repeated and lengthened deployments," the paper
reports. "Historically, suicide rates tend to decrease when soldiers
are in conflicts overseas, but that trend has reversed in recent years.
From a suicide rate of 9.8 per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2001 --
the lowest rate on record -- the Army reached an all-time high of 17.5
suicides per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2006</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html">The number of attempted suicides among soldiers is six times higher than it was</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html">The Associated Press is quoting preliminary figures that show more than a quarter of the suicides took place in Iraq</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html">Click <A href="http://www.suicidology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=2">here</A> for the warning signs that suggest someone is considering suicide</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/record-number-o.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.usatoday.com/img/977D26A0-4B46-4CFD-A53B-F86FA7E63468" alt="Army" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DA7091A-E325-4011-B5EA-9EA303CEC4AC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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