For some, battle goes on long after the shooting stops (military suicides)

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1010suicide.html

a snip from the story:
Although the military does not officially collect data on suicides among returning soldiers, the Daily News compiled a list of 21 such veterans from news reports and veterans' advocate groups. The list includes two Dayton area natives who killed themselves in separate incidents over the July 4 weekend, and three former soldiers who committed murder before taking their own lives.

and the story begins here:
David Payne was still suffering nightmares five months after his second tour of Iraq when his mother, Karen, persuaded him to call his unit leaders.

Payne, a 23-year-old Army Reservist from Norman, Okla., went into his mother's bedroom to make the call in private. "When he came out, he said, 'They're going to do what they can for me, Mom. I have to go to drill duty,' " Karen recalled. "But that was two weeks away."

A week after the call, Payne left his mother a note saying that he loved her, that she was "the best" and that she could find him on the family's farm.

He killed himself with a handgun he'd bought that morning.

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1. I'm glad I don't have Bush's karma

His next life is going to suck BIG TIME!!!!