Soldier Suicides: veterans are killing themselves in record numbers

Minnesota does have alternative news that isn't afraid of the Truth
City Pages is just one of the papers.

But at the VA, not much has changed
Soldier Suicides: veterans are killing themselves in record numbers
http://articles.citypages.com/2008-03-26/feature/soldier-suicides-veterans-killing-themselves/3/

So Schulze traveled with his father 75 miles to the St. Cloud VA. They had heard about its residential treatment program for PTSD and hoped Jonathan would be admitted on the spot.

At the hospital, Schulze told an intake nurse that he was suffering from severe PTSD and that he was suicidal, his parents say—a claim the VA denies. He was told to go home and wait for a phone call; the social worker who was supposed to conduct screenings was busy with another matter.

The next day, Schulze was told that he had been admitted, but he shouldn't pack his bags just yet: He was 26th on the waiting list.

"He got off the phone and he looked at me and his face just fell," says his stepmother, Marianne.

Four days later, police found the 25-year-old motionless in a sitting position, semi-suspended from a blue electrical cord tied to a cross beam in his friend's basement. He had hung himself.