SPECIAL REPORT
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| In Unit Stalked by Suicide, Veterans Try to Save One Another |
Saturday, September 19, 2015 10:29 AM EDT
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| Members of a Marine battalion that served in a restive region in Afghanistan
have been devastated by the deaths of comrades and frustrated by the
V.A. |
| Of about 1,200 Marines who deployed with the Second Battalion,
Seventh Marine Regiment in 2008, at least 13 have killed themselves, two while
on active duty, the rest after they left the military. The resulting suicide
rate for the group is nearly four times the rate for young male veterans as a
whole and 14 times that for all Americans. |
| When the battalion’s
members returned, most left the military and melted back into the civilian
landscape. They had families and played softball, taught high school and
attended Ivy League universities. But many also struggled, unable to find
solace. And for some, the agonies of war never ended. |
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