Army: Record number of suicides for June

   

    Soldiers killed themselves at the rate of one per day in June, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides, the service said Thursday. There were 32 confirmed or suspected suicides among soldiers in June, including 21 among active-duty troops and 11 among National Guard or Reserve forces, according to Army statistics. Last year was the Army’s worst for suicides, with 244 confirmed or suspected cases.

(Last week, Afghanistan envoy Richard Holbrooke said that there was no winning this war militarily. If we know this, why do we continue to torture our brave heroes this way?)