{"id":951,"date":"2025-05-01T21:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/?p=951"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:45:29","slug":"call-for-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/call-for-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Turn Your Back on Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2025\/05\/Call-for-Awareness.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-be315a31-fce8-4f5b-8b13-b9ae2181d26d\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2025\/05\/Capstone-Honors.mp4\">Capstone &#8211; Honors<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2025\/05\/Capstone-Honors.mp4\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-be315a31-fce8-4f5b-8b13-b9ae2181d26d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Too many veterans struggle with mental health, and many don&#8217;t get the help they need. Watch this video to hear one veteran&#8217;s story and better understand what you can do to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some statistics that show the scope of the problem:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>90% of participants who had survived an event when others had died reported experiencing feelings of guilt.<a href=\" https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/325578#causes&nbsp;&nbsp;\"> https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/325578#causes&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Veterans who served after September 11, 2001 (9\/11) also have higher suicide rates than the U.S. population, with rates exacerbated by traumatic brain injuries (TBI).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsrd.research.va.gov\/research\/citations\/PubBriefs\/articles.cfm?RecordID=1225\">https:\/\/www.hsrd.research.va.gov\/research\/citations\/PubBriefs\/articles.cfm?RecordID=1225<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cover Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mbuff?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Sung Jin Cho<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-and-blue-american-flag-on-top-of-a-building-pag3ohE2Ujc?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many veterans struggle with mental health, and many don&#8217;t get the help they need. Watch this video to hear one veteran&#8217;s story and better understand what you can do to help. Here are some statistics that show the scope of the problem: 90% of participants who had survived an event when others had died reported experiencing feelings of guilt. https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/325578#causes&nbsp;&nbsp; Veterans who served after September 11, 2001 (9\/11) also have higher suicide rates than the U.S. population, with rates exacerbated by traumatic brain injuries (TBI).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https:\/\/www.hsrd.research.va.gov\/research\/citations\/PubBriefs\/articles.cfm?RecordID=1225 Cover Photo by Sung Jin Cho on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2025\/05\/sung-jin-cho-pag3ohE2Ujc-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}