Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Soldier Suicide Attempts Skyrocket

According to internal Army documents, the number of U.S. Soldier suicide attempts has gone from less than 500 in 2002 to more than 2,000 last year. The number of actual suicides is also climbing, and the Army's suicide rate is higher than at any time in the past 25 years.

On note left by a young women who attempted suicide earlier this week read only "I am very disapointed with the Army."

Her name is Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, She is now in the psychiatric lockdown ward at Walter Reed Army Medical center.

"She took two weeks worth of medicines - four different medications... and she took them all at once," her father, Tom Whiteside, said.