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Battle on all fronts
11:26am Friday 16th May 2008
The warmth of the welcome to our homecoming troops (Troops welcomed in special service after tour of duty,' May 9) was a heart-rending story.
However, this event should be put into context.
The Ministry of Defence admitted, in August 2006, that the Government had spent more than £9 million treating British troops with mental health problems in private clinics. These were 1,500 servicemen and women who served in Iraq and needed psychiatric treatment.
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation warned last year that ten per cent of homeless people are ex-armed forces personnel.
The inhumane price we pay for war is far too high.
Jim Dry Socialist Labour Party
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