Today is the tenth anniversary of our commencing our military actions in that nation
Yesterday Megan McCloskey posted this at Stars and Stripes, from which I want to quote some figures made available by Veterans for Common Sense after a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to for VA and DoD data. The figures are as of the end of September, and I offer them with no further comment except to offer my usual final salutation now:
Peace.
- 6,211 dead
- 45,889 wounded in action
- 367,749 veterans with a mental health condition
- 1,442,987 million veterans eligible for VA healthcare, but only about half have been treated.
- 9,700 new patients at the VA each month, on average
- 624,266 veterans who have filed a disability claim
- 107,718 veterans with an approved PTSD claim, about 17 percent of total claims
- 2,293 active-duty suicides since January 2001, including 298 war-zone suicides
Just something to remember.