“There is a perception that we have a veterans’ suicide epidemic on our hands. I don’t think that is true,” said Robert Bossarte, the epidemiologist who conducted the study. “The rate is going up in the country, and veterans are a part of it.”26 Most of the stories didn’t bother with this quote, nor did they include important benchmarks like the overall suicide rate in America or the suicide rate among men in the same age cohort as the young combat veterans.
