Reading this article my heart broke.

The tremendous sacrifices our military personnel and their families are making and continue to make with no end in sight seems to go all but unnoticed here in the U.S.

To compound the problem service people are being redeployed when they are unfit for service and hung out to dry when they return.

Promised services are not being delivered and worse yet personnel badly in need of physical and psychological care are being severed from the needed services via discharges and other just plain dirty methods. VA hospitals are overburdened and underfunded.

The Bush administration admitted they were caught off guard and simply unprepared for the number of service people returning with complex medical problems like limb amputation, closed head injury and PTS.

Okay, the admission was made...now we must do something about it.

It is sickening to see this shameful state of affairs.

We have a responsibility to these people who have served no matter what your opinion is of the war in Iraq.

Rant off...please read...

Army official: Suicides in January 'terrifying'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year.

The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January alone -- six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008, according to statistics released Thursday.

The Army said it already has confirmed seven suicides, with 17 additional cases pending that it believes investigators will confirm as suicides for January.

If those prove true, more soldiers will have killed themselves than died in combat last month. According to Pentagon statistics, there were 16 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq in January.

Full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/army.suicides/index.html