{"id":26103,"date":"2011-08-05T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26103"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:34:11","slug":"veteran-college-students-have-highest-suicide-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26103","title":{"rendered":"Veteran college students have highest suicide rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/student-veterans-have-high-suicide-risk-new-study-finds-1.151273\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that according to a study quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/08\/military-student-veterans-suicide-risk-080411w\/\">Air Force Times<\/a> nearly half of veterans in college have had thoughts of suicide;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers decided to examine the issue of suicide among student veterans because they received reports from campus veterans groups that vets were feeling isolated and disconnected from fellow students as a result of their worldly experiences, said University of Utah professor M. David Rudd, the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isolated and disconnected? No shit? Here are people who&#8217;ve already made a mark in the world surrounded by lazy, unmotivated complainers who treat them like shit. Not to mention that they are closer in age to the professors than the students and the professors demean everything that the veterans have accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>I think the worst part of my life was the year I spent as a student listening to my fellow students constantly telling me how rough their lives were and listening to professors mis-tell the history I&#8217;d lived. And I couldn&#8217;t understand how the world had gone to shit in the mere twenty years I&#8217;d been gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that according to a study quoted in the Air Force Times &hellip; <a title=\"Veteran college students have highest suicide rates\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26103\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran college students have highest suicide rates<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}