mohandasgandhi:

anticapitalist:

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2000 of our veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are homeless and 900,000 of them are unemployed.

35% experience significant mental illnesses.

War is bullshit.

2,333,972 individuals have been deployed to either Iraq, Afghanistan, or both. 38 out of 100,000 Iraq/Afghan vets commit suicide. The suicide rate for the general U.S. population is 11.5 out of 100,000. If you take into account all veterans, 18 commit suicide every day. 6,000 killed themselves in 2009 alone. 98 of them were vets returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. 1,868 of these returning veterans attempted suicide in 2009, with over 10,000 in all. 1,286 of the vets returning from Afghanistan or Iraq are now amputees. 1 in 5 have sustained a traumatic brain injury. The unemployment rate of returning vets is 12.1%, compared to the current national average of 8.6%.

Click here to learn how to help and support returning veterans.

Source: msw.usc.edu

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