Veterans' mental health plight was foreseeable and foreseen
Your article on the escalating mental health problems among frontline veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises serious questions about how we repay the people who risk their lives for us (Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism, August 3).You report a new study by the British Medical Journal online. But as long ago as February 2003 our charity warned that soldiers who were then being deployed in Iraq could suffer serious psychological trauma following conflict. We knew that more Falklands veterans had committed suicide than were killed during the conflict. We also knew that almost five times the number of soldiers who lost their lives in the previous Gulf conflict had since committed suicide.… Seguir leyendo »