Sinema correct on number of veteran suicides

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By Julia Shumway

Sinema focused a lot of attention during the past year on issues at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs center, including the death by suicide of constituent and veteran Daniel Somers.

The Iraq veteran’s parents appeared in a campaign commercial last year for Sinema and attended this year’s State of the Union address. In responding to President Barack Obama’s address, Sinema expressed frustration that he did not discuss the health-care crisis at the Veterans Administration in greater detail.

The estimated number of veterans who take their own lives comes from a VA study released in 2012 based on a sample in 21 states. California and Texas, the two states with the largest veteran populations, were not in the report.

The report notes that its estimates should be used cautiously as the limited response by stateshire vets and poor reporting of veteran status on death forms makes it difficult to tell how many veterans die from suicide.

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