CBS 60min.: OIF & OEF Veteran Clay Hunt & Team Rubicon

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

The life and death of Clay Hunt

March 3, 2013 - One of the leading causes of death for American military forces right now is suicide. In 2012, 349 active members of the Armed Forces took their own lives, more than who died in combat. When you add the suicides among veterans, the numbers are staggering. The VA estimates that as many as 22 veterans a day die by their own hands. Twenty-two each day.

This is the story of one: Clay Hunt from Houston, Texas, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. After four years of a downward spiral, he took his own life in 2011. You'll see him in videos during some of his best times and hear him talk about some of his worst. Hunt loved being a Marine and serving his country and though he had been out of the Corps for two years when he died, Clay Hunt was a casualty of war.

This is Clay Hunt about a year before he killed himself. At 27, he thought he could make the world a better place.

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

Clay Hunt: "So I'm almost 10 years older than most of my classmates and so that makes it a little hard to relate to a lot of people just cause I have a whole lot of different life experiences than most 40 year olds. You know, I've done, seen things in my life that, for one, most people should never have to see." read more - resource links>>>

Why Have Military Suicides Reached An All-Time High?

How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

No one has paid a dime, rubber stamped no bid contracts and all borrowed costs to this day, for either war!

No one has paid a dime for the long term results of, DeJa-Vu all over again! A decade plus added to the previous decades and wars of since Korea!

Deficits rapidly rising with the rubber stamping started Before 9/11, told to go shopping by the previous CiC! And the only ones in government doing anything, federal and states, even with all the obstruction, are this Executive Administration and it's Cabinet in helping the Veterans Administration and that will continue, so will the obstruction by the war rubber stampers!!