Isle (noun) see Aisle. Isle (noun) an island. Isle (noun) a spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects. Isle (verb) to cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island. Origin: [OF. isle, F. le, L. insula; cf. Lith. sala. Cf. Insulate.]
The Department of Veterans Affairs released sobering new statistics today about veteran suicide rates in the United States. According to the VA, an average of 20 veterans died from suicide every day in 2014. The VA examined over 55 million veteran records from 1979 to 2014 from every state in the nation. The last time the VA conducted a study like this was in 2010, but that report included data from only 20 states.
Among key findings: while suicide rates for soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan more than doubled from 2004 to 2009 to more than 30-per-100,000, the trend among those who never deployed nearly tripled to between 25- and 30-per-100,000.501 CONNECT 216 TWEET 15 LINKEDIN 16 COMMENT EMAIL MORE. Suicide rates soared among soldiers who went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and those who never left the United States, according to the largest study ever conducted on suicide in the military.