I chose to focus my blog on the topic 1. from the 2010-2011 project censored list.  The topic is 'More US Soldiers commited suicide then died in combat.  I chose this particular subject because I felt it delt with a combination of two often unspoken about subject matters that are both important to the public at large.  Depression is often referred to as the silent killer and as of late the issue of mental health has been brought up in rececnt tradgedies.  Soldiers have become somewhat of an abstract concept. Men and women, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, sons and daughters are simply thought of as a collective group of soldiers fighting the good fight in order to protect or freedom.  Outside of the occasional human interest on the nightly news their own personal struggles are rarely brought to light.  It's not untill after the fact that the extent of their experience is brought to light.  Much is simply treated as just a part of the job without a focus on the impact to their psyche.  When people who choose to put their own lives on the line end up survivng atrocities to then take their own lives and issue of the impact to their mental health and what is or isn't being done to treat that is brought up.  http://www.projectcensored.org/1-more-us-soldiers-committed-suicide-than-died-in-combat