The Cost of War

Latest DoD Figures Show Suicide Kills Almost 5 Times as Many Troops as Combat: For the complete article visit this yahoo link. 

In a 2012 report put out by the Veterans Administration, it was estimated that up to 22 veterans a day, kill themselves. That is 8,000 lives a year; almost one per hour.  If we look at attempted suicides, that number skyrockets to 19,000 attempts, of which 8,000 result in ending their own lives.  

Another cost of war that I cannot prove is the vaccines given to soldiers for overseas deployments.  I believe that this has played apart in me becoming ill.  There are many more costs of war but we will leave it at this for today.