Tragedy strikes back at home

Col. Elspeth Ritchie at a Pentagon press conference

http://socialistworker.org/2009/03/04/tragedy-strikes-at-home

Phil Aliff was deployed to Iraq with the Army's 10th Mountain Division and is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). In March 2007, he helped start IVAW's first active-duty chapter and became a dedicated antiwar activist.

Here, he reports on the growing epidemic of suicides among veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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