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Iraq, Afghan vets at risk for suicides (AP)

Mary Gallagher poses beside a photograph of her husband Gunnery Sgt. James F. Gallagher at her home in Lynbrook, N.Y., Thursday Oct. 11, 2007. Mary's husband committed suicide at Camp Pendleton in May of 2006. The image on Mary's shirt is also of her husband. Preliminary Department of Veterans research obtained by The Associated Press reveals for the first time that there were at least 283 suicides among veterans who left the military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, through 2005. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Mary Gallagher did not get a knock at the door from a military chaplain with news of her Marine husband’s death in a faraway place. Instead, the Iraq war veteran committed suicide eight months after returning home.

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