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guest: my pleasure, too, thank you. host: the invisible wounds of war: coming home from iraq and afghanistan. and what a time to talk about this, what a relevant time. in july the highest rate of suicides that the military has ever seen, 38 soldiers took their own lives. more casualties in the battlefield, more than one a day. this is precisely the topic you take on in the invisible wounds of war. talk about it. guest: well, first of all, um, only 1% of our population over 18 is in the army, and it s a volunteer army which means they don t have enough soldiers, they re stretched thin, they have too many deployments. usually you need two years between deployments, some of them get a year, nine months at the most, you know, even less. so they keep going back. and they redeploy when soldiers are having, um, problems with combat stress. they redeploy. host: you know, it s interesting, one of the trends they found is that increasingly older soldiers are taking thei ....

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