Over 30,000 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide – compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same 20 years, according to research published in 2021.
Yeah. That's a statistic that people ought to know, because it makes our natural feeling of repulsion over fighting wars because someone said so even more acute.
This blew my mind:
Over 30,000 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide – compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same 20 years, according to research published in 2021.
Yeah. That's a statistic that people ought to know, because it makes our natural feeling of repulsion over fighting wars because someone said so even more acute.