In the next hour....(Veteran suicide)

   Many of us spend about 4 hours per day online reading.  You know, hadit, checking email, banking, etc. . During this 4 hours this is what will happen:

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Four more Veterans will lose their life to their own hand.  

Yep.  Twenty Two Vets kill themselves each day.  More die from suicide than are killed in combat.  Its a tragedy that keeps getting swept under the rug.  At least one source says the actual number is really higher than that.  After all, in a drug OD, or a car wreck, no one is able to ask the deceased:

"Did you do this on purpose?"

Veteran suicides out number non Veteran by about 2 to 1.  

CAn the VA do more?  I think so.  

Please post YOUR ideas on how to help future Vets.  We cant help those who already died, but maybe we can help those still living.  

Source: https://www.onceasoldier.org/veteran-suicide-rates-by-state/

The VA says that Veteran suicide decreased from 2015 to 2016.  I wonder if that is because dead Veterans dont commit suicide.  We have fewer Vets each year as old ones die off.    The VA's chart, in the link, shows the number of USA Vets decreased from 2005 to 2016 from about 24 million to about 20 million.  Thats around 4 million fewer Vets who can not kill themselves.