News at Eleven: More of our young Soldiers are now killing themselves

than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this article, but the following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells it all.

You fell off the seat as the handlebars turned

from Veteran's Today: Soldiers & Suicide: A Warrior Poet's Nightmare

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