“The much-discussed estimate of twenty-two vets a day committing suicide in the United States is deceptive: it was only in 2008 that – for the first time in decades- the suicide rate among veterans surpassed the civilian rate in America, and though each death is enormously tragic, the majority of those veterans were over the age of fifty. Many were Vietnam vets and, generally speaking, the more time that passes after a trauma, the less likely a suicide is to have anything to do with it.”
