Suicide is the number one cause of death of US service members and veterans. To adress this grim statistic, members of Wall Street firms came together to help those in need who served their country.
Traders presents the third gallery of images from the Night for Life event.
Last week, Traders presented the second set of images of the Night for Life event. The first set of Night For Life images can be found on our Traders Gallery page.
INTL FCStone Financial was the anchor sponsor for Night for Life, a charity event to support the efforts of Stop Soldier Suicide. The event took place on the deck of the USS Intrepid on June 2nd. Other event sponsors included Bloomberg, UBS and other major corporations that gathered to raise awareness of the high suicide rates among US service men and women.
The 2016 Night for Life event supported Stop Soldier Suicides mission to end military related suicide. The aim, according to a press statement, is to empower them to move forward with their lives, and to support them through times of struggle.
Burdened with [a belief in] the stigma associated with mental health issues and the military shame surrounding PTS (Post Traumatic Stress), they turn instead to suicide as their only option to relieve suffering. In the most recent wars, the number of deaths by suicide exceeded combat fatalities by more than two thousand. From the Vietnam era, the United States had lost more than 100,000 service members to suicide, almost twice the number of combat losses, just five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, reads the press statement.
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