More US Soldiers commit suicide then die.. almost double WTF… this is a trip..  lickystickypickyme: ‘American kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist Sebastian Errazuriz is a public installation showcasing the suicide rates of US soldiers. After searching on official war sites on the internet, he accidentally found out that 2 times more american soldiers had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed during that same year in the war in iraq; an alarming comparison that Errazuriz had personally never read or heard about before. According to the artist, a first Google search showed only reports of media alarm about suicide rates, but the information was always comfortably presented divided into months and generally separated by statistics from the army, navy or air-force. more

More US Soldiers commit suicide then die.. almost double WTF… this is a trip..  lickystickypickyme:

‘American kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist Sebastian Errazuriz is a public
installation showcasing the suicide rates of US soldiers. After searching on official
war sites on the internet, he accidentally found out that 2 times more american soldiers
had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed during that same year in the
war in iraq; an alarming comparison that Errazuriz had personally never read or
heard about before.

According to the artist, a first Google search showed only reports of media alarm about
suicide rates, but the information was always comfortably presented divided into months and generally separated by statistics from the army, navy or air-force.

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