Twenty-two U.S. Military Veterans kill themselves each day, according to recent statistics.
Many of these suicide victims were sufferers of PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder., a condition brought on by the atrocities of war.One of these recent victims, Daniel Somers, an Iraq war veteran, left a suicide note, which his family shared with the media in Phoenix, subsequently prompting the suicide letter to spread virally on the internet.
“Too trapped in a war to be at peace, too damaged to be at war,” reads an excerpt from Somers’ letter.
His parents says that this is PTSD speaking, not their son.
Somers was a sergeant in an intelligence unit, where he ran 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee. According to his parents, Howard and Jean Somers, their son was diagnosed with PTSD, a brain injury, Gulf War syndrome, fibromyalgia and a host of other medical problems in 2008, one year after the end of his second deployment.
Sadly, suicide is not the only terrible problem plaguing veterans who return home from combat.
PTSD not only can cause these former soldiers to take their own lives, but to take the lives others, or to behave in other dangerous and criminal ways.
To read more about Sergeant Daniel Somers, click on the following link:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/06/us/soldier-suicide-note/index.html
If you or someone you know suffers from PTSD and as a result, needs criminal defense in civilian or military court, call the Law Offices of John L. Calcagni, III, at 401-531-5100 for a free consultation to learn about the options.
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