Army reports rise in suicide rate

How sad.

The U.S. Army will report Thursday the highest level of suicides among its soldiers since it began tracking the rate 28 years ago

The article goes on to give statistics and whatnot, that I don't really feel like repeating.

This should hopefully be a hint that it is time to leave. War isn't pretty, there is just no getting around that.

They do however mention, that

[m]any of the suicides occur after troops return home.

Perhaps the military is forgetting that in order to condition these young men and women to function in a war zone, they are de-conditioning them to be able to function in a civilian world. While we are blowing all of this money on a war that we aren't winning, maybe they could throw a few thousand bucks into a program to make sure that ALL returning personnel are getting the counseling they could clearly use, and to help them reacclimate themselves to civilian society.

If we're sending them into the bowels of hell, the least we can do is help them on the climb back up.