Military Suicide: The Social Problems Behind The Military Suicide

The social problems behind the military suicide

I am very shocked, when I listen the lecture about the military suicide. This lecture focus on the horrible situation about the military suicide. A big part of the soldiers does not die in the war but in the peaceful military. People in the USA do not care about the military suicide until late 1970s to early 1980s. I find two social problems in this lecture. First is the military does not pay much attention on the mental health of the soldiers. Second is the government does not have many good policies to help veterans.

First of all, the military does not pay much attention on the mental health of the soldiers. When the soldier came back from the war, most of the soldiers would not be relax and

The government overlooks the situations of ex-soldiers in normal lives, and the ex-soldiers can not get back to normal lives. As we know, the life in military is very different from the life in normal society. The normal people can not image how cruel and horrible the war and military is. On the one side, many of the veterans suffer from disability, however the government does not provide job opportunities to these people with honor. A really big part of them get the PTSD, they got great achievements in the War to the country. They want to devote themselves into the country, even if, they lost their lag or arm. Nonetheless, the government treats them like the good-for-nothing. The government ignores them. Most of them kill themselves, because they can not find the personal value of themselves to the country. On the other side, when many higher officers retired, the government gives them some insignificant jobs. Everyone in the military respect the higher officers, their words are the only law in soldiers’ minds. The higher wardrooms are the big deal of the entire military. When they retired, the government never treats them like before. No one in the new work place respect them as heroes. Their prides are destroyed, so many of them get suicide. In conclusion, the social problem about the government ignorance about the veterans also causes the high rate of military