More veterans have died by suicide than the VA previously reported, new study shows

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More veterans have died by suicide than the VA previously reported, new study shows

More military veterans died by suicide than the Department of Veterans Affairs had previously reported, a new study found. The number of suicides among former service members is 1.37 times greater in eight states than the VA had reported from 2014 to 2018, according to a study released Saturday by America’s Warrior Partnership (AWP), a […]

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