{"id":68669,"date":"2016-10-29T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68669"},"modified":"2016-10-29T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:13:52","slug":"major-general-john-rossis-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68669","title":{"rendered":"Major General John Rossi&#8217;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68670\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68670\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/John-Rossi-295x333.jpg\" alt=\"John Rossi\" width=\"295\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/John-Rossi-295x333.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/John-Rossi-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/John-Rossi.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A number of folks have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/10\/28\/army-generals-death-ruled-suicide\/92880986\/\">sent us links<\/a> about Major General John Rossi who killed himself on July 31st He was two days away from pinning on his third star and taking command of the Army Space and Missile Command. He killed himself in his home at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigators could find no event, infidelity, misconduct or drug or alcohol abuse, that triggered Rossi&#8217;s suicide, said a U.S. government official with direct knowledge of the investigation. It appears that Rossi was overwhelmed by his responsibilities, said the official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Rossi himself talked in March about suicide at a conference on preventing troops from killing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>He held up a card from his wallet with photos of 10 soldiers who had died under his command at Fort Sill, Okla. Four of them had committed suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of folks have sent us links about Major General John Rossi who killed himself &hellip; <a title=\"Major General John Rossi&#8217;s suicide\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68669\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major General John Rossi&#8217;s suicide<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68669","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=68669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}