The worst casualties suffered by ‘American soldiers during the world war are just beginning so show themselves, and by contrast troops wounded on the battlefields are lucky compared with the greatly increased casualties of to-day, according to C.J. Harris, an official of the American Legion’s national headquarters, in charge of ex-soldier claims against the Government.
There is an average of two ex-soldier suicides a day, Mr. Harris declares, and almost without exception the men were in the battlelines in France. These soldiers, the Legion official contends, were discharged by army doctors as normal. Since the war, however, the men, struggling for a living have undergone mental anguish that their war-racked nerves could not withstand.
From page 6 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, June 9, 1922
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