Making it Personal

There was a recent article in the Washington Post about the record number of suicides among soldiers who had served in Iraq. In 2007, 121 such people took their lives. It's weird to think that 120 other communities had to suffer the same trauma we did. 120 other families have had to experience the same grief we had to watch. It's weird, because even 1 other instance seems an unthinkable grief.

We still miss you, Mike.

Edit: Re-reading the piece, it may be that they are only counting active-duty people. He may not, therefore, be in that statistic. Which begs the question - how many more people have had to endure this? All I know is that the whole situation is a big question with perhaps no answers that anyone living can offer.