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Daniel Inouye: “The strain of these deployments is beginning to show. Suicide and divorce rates, for example, are on the rise…”

On the recordMarch 24, 2009
The strain of these deployments is beginning to show. Suicide and divorce rates, for example, are on the rise, unfortunately.
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Daniel Inouye
Democratic · Hawaii

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Inouye highlights the negative impact of deployments on servicemembers' well-being.

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