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August 21, 2009

Iraq, Afghan War Veteran in Murder-Suicide
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In California, a former US soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
has been found dead along with his girlfriend in an apparent
murder-suicide. Family members say the soldier, Jacob Gregory Swanson,
was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental
problems as a result of his time in combat. His girlfriend, Amy Rochelle
Salo, was the mother of three children. An estimated eighty-eight
soldiers took their lives in the first half of this year, on pace to
break last year’s record of up to 143 soldier suicides.



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