Thursday, January 31, 2008

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Platoon of new recruits, January 2008


As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, a jump of more than 20 percent over the year before, officials said Thursday.

  Yahoo

Which was already higher than any other year in any war.

Thirty-four percent were suicides by soldiers serving in Iraq, up from 27% the year before.

The report also showed an increase in the number of attempted suicides and self-injuries — some 2,100 in 2007 compared to less than 1,500 the previous year and less than 500 in 2002.

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The total of 121 suicides last year, if all are confirmed, would be double the 52 reported in 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks prompted the Bush administration to launch its counter-terror war.

It seems the Army only started keeping track of suicides in 1980. The lowest count (nine out of every 100,000 soliders) was in 2001. But then September 11 changed everything, eh George?


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