oh no! vet kills himself, wife joins him

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003805072


'Houston Chronicle' Uncovers Another Iraq Vet Suicide -- And His Wife Soon Joined Him


Literally every day now brings a report on a suicide by a veteran of the Iraq war who served multiple tours there and/or suffered from PTSD. In most cases, the stories emerge from small town newspapers, as E&P has chronicled for nearly five years. Today's example comes from a much bigger paper, the Houston Chronicle, and probes at length a case that occurred last year.

And in this case, the soldier's wife joined him as a suicide the following day.

The article by Lindsay Wise on Aron Andersson and Cassy Walton observes that when the former "killed himself on March 6, 2007, he became one of at least 16 Army recruiters to commit suicide nationwide since 2000. Five of those suicides occurred in Texas, including three at the Houston Recruiting Battalion, where Andersson worked after serving two tours of duty in Iraq.

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I hate the neo cons

[BlooInBloo]

1. damndamndamn. :(

[niyad]

2. and none of these sad cases are figured into the casualty count. is there any organization

keeping track of all the suicides and murder/suicides of returning vets? or, as in a case here, a vet who died in a car accident (driving drunk the wrong way on the interstate, in treatment for depression)

requiescat in pacem

[boobooday]

3. This is the definition of tragedy n/t

[Wilms]

4. .

[w8liftinglady]

5. no belonging

[w8liftinglady]

6. no belonging with this'

[w8liftinglady]

7. i'm along with this

[Eurobabe]

8. horrible.

this should not happen. :cry:

[orleans]

9. god damn george bush and dick cheney! n/t