The fall-out from the Afghanistan theatre of war isn't confined to death or injuries on the battle-field. There are the innumerable suicides and those suffering stresses of one sort or another. The tragedy of young people traumatised by their experiences doesn't seem to figure in the "cost" of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan - and Pakistan, Libya and where American armed-forces are deployed elsewhere.
BUT, it seems like all suicides don't actually count.
"Clay Hunt, a 28-year-old, much-decorated Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who battled post-traumatic stress disorder after the deaths of four friends - and who became the face of the military's suicide prevention program - killed himself March 31. Hunt had a tattoo that quoted Tolkien: "Not all those who wander are lost." But now the military, facing soaring suicide rates, won't count him among the lost. They should, says his best friend; he gave his all to them.
“Part of Clay was killed in Iraq. Part of Clay was killed in Afghanistan and the rest of him was killed in Houston, Texas." - fellow Marine Jake Wood."
BUT, it seems like all suicides don't actually count.
"Clay Hunt, a 28-year-old, much-decorated Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who battled post-traumatic stress disorder after the deaths of four friends - and who became the face of the military's suicide prevention program - killed himself March 31. Hunt had a tattoo that quoted Tolkien: "Not all those who wander are lost." But now the military, facing soaring suicide rates, won't count him among the lost. They should, says his best friend; he gave his all to them.
“Part of Clay was killed in Iraq. Part of Clay was killed in Afghanistan and the rest of him was killed in Houston, Texas." - fellow Marine Jake Wood."
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