True Statistics Of American Soldier Deaths
25 Aug 2010, written by Revelation 2 CommentsShocked to discover the statistic that 2 times more American soldiers that served in Iraq had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed in combat during that same year hadn’t been properly addressed in the press and is unknown by a majority of the general population, New York-based installation artist Sebastian Errazuriz took to the wall outside of his studio in Brooklyn.
Sebastian says:
“The counting of dead soldiers outside my studio was long and surprisingly eerie; it was hard to forget that every brush stroke was a soldier who had died the previous year. A lot of people stopped to read the mural and were immediately impressed by the reality portrayed. Most of them seemed quite shocked and approached me to ask if what I was painting was real. I tried to explain that I simply wished to create a physical image that could capture people’s imagination, creating awareness of the current numbers in death, war and the infinite discrepancy between the resources and energies destined to fight and protect soldiers at war versus the energies invested in protecting their mental health and stability.”
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harold best @Twitter Name
September 1, 2010 11:56 am
Yeah, but that does not take in to account the number of ordinary peacetime suicides that would be happening in any case which, in any large enough group of people, will be naturally occuring. Some folks are always going to remove themselves from the race. No matter what.In my opinion, this comparison, is not valid.
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September 23, 2010 2:45 pm
Suicide among our soldiers, our men and women who fight for this country that most Americans take for granite is too high. I dont care if it falls into the normal percentage of people who are going to “remove themselves from this race”. I think that they have to do so much and dont ask for a thing in return. They deserve our thank you’s and our gratitude. Maybe if more people showed them they were GREATFUL the rates might go down. Show these men and women these brave soldiers our brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, moms, dads, neighbors or even complete strangers that we are proud to be American and have these freedoms that they protect everyday. The things that they put thier lifes on the line for. Then they might see that even though it’s hard over seas or away from home they have a whole country behind them, supporting them, LOVING THEM…………..
Truley Your’s
proud American……………