Veterans commit suicide, successfully, at the rate of 18 per day.

18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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18 successful suicides per day by US veterans.

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Now let us mourn them all together.

eyes, nothing will. That teacher was such a hero, may she rest in peace.

Now, it makes sense.

The unsuspecting woman will be frozen in time...in the second her soul was laid-bare..

humans are very visual creatures. Images get through to us when words cannot. Perhaps seeing the anguish on this woman's face will help wake people up to the need for better gun laws in most of the states, not to mention the need for radical reform of how mental health issues are handled.

I live in hope.

shut on the anti-gun nuttery we might actually get something achieved!

I've yet to figure out how to post pictures on DU but I remember the impact of the pictures from the Civil Rights Movement of the early and mid sixties wherein the police let loose the dogs on the protestors. There was footage of protesters being beaten and crushed with water coming from a hose connected to fire hydrants. I'm convinced it was what turned the tide in this country from a vague understand of something that was largely perceived to be a regional problem to one that concerned the entire nation.

you'll find out there (the good one's anyway). Pictures don't lie and covering events like mass shooters, war, etc. are hard on the photographer as well--look up Kevin Carter (he took the iconic photo of the starving girl and vulture in the background).

Losing your sister is hard any time of the year, but one week before Christmas is way too much pain.

same beautiful girl.

I'll remember that name as an American Hero. I've already forgotten the killer.

something just jumped at me - the feeling that she was snapped at the moment she was being told that her child was killed.

Too 'snuff' for me, iconic or not, but maybe making this information public will wake people the fuck up about the need for gun regulation in this country.

today I remembered this shot and thought there was a strong resemblance. I hoped I was wrong and she found her sister.

Me too.

It was early in the incident, and there was such chaos. This poor girl.

The heartbreak does not stop.

I do not know whether to thank you, or kick you (j/k kinda0\)

Serious, this keeps getting sadder and sadder.

Let these people GRIEVE without flashing their faces on the public airwaves.

It's unseemly and is insulting to the survivors and the victims' families. They have enough to deal with without being badgered by "journalists".

Relatives of the people who died were upset every time the collapse of the towers, or even the hit by the second plane were shown. They showed the death of their loved ones.

And this is what Carlee Soto told a reporter: "It's like a reminder of that moment all over again," Soto, 20, told CBS 2's Chris Wragge in a TV interview. "It kills."

Unfortunately, for many people, to get the enormity of the event they cannot rely on descriptions, they have to witness the agony, the - while not a comparison - the tear at the corner of the President's eye.

My heart goes out to her, her family and all the families of those who lost loved ones.

in a tragedy that, it can be argued, was preventable. A mother provided weapons and weapons training to her disturbed son apparently. Preventable.

We need to see it. If you don't allow photos, it's all too easy to forget. Too easy not to feel the pain. Too easy to just go back to business as usual. And hide in denial. And wait for the next one.

This is the face of grief.

Remember this face, and act on what it represents--to honor her sister.