Suicide among military-connected youth a growing concern

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1. the wars that keep on giving

When I was in the Army, my wife used to work as a special education assistant at the local elementary school on our base. She recounted me several stories about kids coming to school with serious emotional problems as a result of one of their parents being deployed to a war zone then coming back with their own issues. Children, spouses, and other family members are prone to what is called "secondary PTSD".

This was in 2005-2006 or so. I would imagine that, 7 years later, that the problem hasn't gotten any better as more children had parents broken down by multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.

It's all the price we pay for freedom. Oh wait, these wars were nothing about protecting our freedom. I take that back.