Veteran suicides – the uncounted casualties of war

Number of veterans who commit suicide every day

3,500

Mental health professionals the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has hired in recent years to handle the influx of Iraq and Afghan war veterans

$6.2 billion

Amount the VA plans to spend on mental health treatment for veterans in 2013

1,286

Number of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who are amputees as a result of their service

$31,244

Average income for the bottom 90 percent of Americans

$1,137,684

Average income for the top one percent of Americans

$27 million

Average income per household of the top one hundredth of one percent of Americans

Number of people killed wearing headphones in the U.S. in 2004

Number killed wearing headphones in 2011, more than half of them run down by trains

Sources: Army Times; Washington Post; ABC News; Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America; Mother Jones; University of California – Berkeley