"Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs say that each year more than 6,000 veterans take their own lives.... The dying didn't stop when the unit came home. Two soldiers in the unit took their own lives. At the funeral for the second veteran, in a supreme example of gallows humor, one veteran told another, "Guess I'll see you at the next one of these.""
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Operation Resiliency Aims to Counter Veteran Suicides, By Jim Garamone, DOD News, Dec. 14, 2022
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