Every single one of them is an absolute tragedy. I have friends and many of us who served have friends that were lost in that effort. We lost 35,000 more to suicide during the same period of time. And that really to me speaks about that total, the real, total human cost of war that we have yet to fully appreciate. (01:04–01:09)
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Asserts that 35,000 troops died by suicide during the 20-year war on terror.
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