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Greg Mitchell: 'Crushed,' the U.S. Soldier Wrote -- and Then He Was Dead

Apr 13, 2008 - For the past five years, since shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I have chronicled -- often a lonely pursuit -- the deaths of nearly one thousand U.S. military personnel who have died in that war from "non-hostile" causes. These include deaths from illness, accident, friendly fire and suicide. The suicide rate has surged in the past few years, as multiple tours increased, and this has…

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