{"id":2039,"date":"2010-11-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/11\/on-veterans-day-some-grim-stat.html"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T10:00:00","slug":"on-veterans-day-some-grim-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/11\/on-veterans-day-some-grim-stat.html","title":{"rendered":"On Veteran&#8217;s Day: Some Grim Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nami.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/import\/imgs\/nami.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"166\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>On Veteran&#8217;s Day, I thought it was appropriate to site some statistics about veterans and mental health:<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost one in three veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq confront mental health problems.<\/li>\n<li>On an average day in this country, suicide claims another 18 veterans.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 30 percent of veterans treated in the veterans health system suffer from depressive symptoms, two to three times the rate of the general population.<\/li>\n<li>More Vietnam veterans have now died from suicide than were killed directly during the war.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 40 percent of homeless veterans have mental illnesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please. 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