Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Suicide by Guard, Reserve troops studied (AP)

Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks to reporters on his way to a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 26, 2008. Top Japanese officials on Tuesday deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security alliance. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)AP - National Guard and Reserve troops who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan make up more than half of veterans who committed suicide after returning home from those wars, according to new government data obtained by The Associated Press.


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