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Bill O'Chee

Bill O'Chee writes regularly for Fairfax Media.

Christmas especially is when many of us stop thinking of ourselves and think of others instead.

What if someone cancelled Christmas?

When Islamic State seized a large swathe of Iraq in 2014, Mosul's many Assyrian Christians were condemned to a living hell that made our petty Christmas squabbles in Australia seem insignificant.

The suicide rate among war veterans is higher than in the general population.

Veterans face the ultimate indignity

It is hard sitting with a veteran - someone decorated for bravery, no less - when he tells you he has been thinking of taking his life. Gut-wrenching though it was, I wasn't surprised. I had seen this coming for months, and his wife was doing it.