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On the recordFebruary 2, 2015
We are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide. In the Active Duty, we lost 132 young men and women in combat in 2013. We lost 475 to suicide, almost four times as many.
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Joe Donnelly
Democratic · Indiana

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Donnelly highlights the alarming suicide rates among veterans compared to combat losses.

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