One piece of info about American casualties that's not often reported is that after the war ended as many former soldiers committed suicide as were killed in battle.
An odd paragraph at the end of Elizabeth Becker's piece in today's NYT comparing Vietnam & Iraq:
One anomaly in the casualty list is a high rate of suicides among the military in Iraq compared with the troops in Vietnam. This does not square with reports that say morale is good in Iraq.
And that's all she wrote. Doesn't that seem like it should be the beginning of an article, not the abrupt end?
Doug
