The women get up on a hot Saturday morning in April for the long ride to Tampa. One is making a 130-mile drive from Astor, and the other is traveling 40 miles from Dade City. Though they are coming from different places, their paths to a Tampa ceremony honoring fallen troops is remarkably similar. Each lost an Army son to suicide last summer. Each is suffering despair, what they say is a stigma that comes with a child who takes his own life and anger at the Army for failing to do more to prevent the deaths. They are not alone in their misery. More U.S. troops are dying by their own hand than by the enemy's. There were 488 confirmed suicides last year and another 27 suspected, compared with...
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