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Three veterans commit suicide outside VA hospitals across five days in two different states
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Three veterans have killed themselves at separate Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Georgia and Texas over the past week
- 29-year-old Gary Pressley was discovered inside car in the parking lot of Carl Vinson VA Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia on April 5
- 68-year-old Olen Hancock of Alpharetta killed himself outside the Atlanta VA Medical Center on April 6
- On April 9, a veteran who has not yet been named shot himself in front of hundreds of people in the waiting room of a VA Clinic
- The chairman of the House Committee on Veteran's Affairs, said the deaths were part of a 'national crisis'
- Around 20 veterans kill themselves every day - the rate is 1.5 times higher for those who have served in the military compared to those who have not
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-16 |
