The cost of war is horrible and vast, affecting hundreds of thousands of human beings abroad and in our own communities. More active duty military and veterans have died of suicide the past 8 years than both wars combined. The rate of suicides for vets rose 26% between 2005-2007, and since 2006, the rate of Marine suicides has nearly doubled. Six thousand veterans, around twenty percent of all U.S. suicides, kill themselves every year; that’s eighteen a day. In the future, we need to educate pastors and to educate religious leaders and their communities about how to heal moral injury and minister to veterans.
And besides that the number of divorces of those in the military is astronomical.
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