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Army is confronting rising suicide problem (mysanantonio.com)
October 04, 2012
On a cool afternoon in September 2008, I stepped out of my car into the parking lot of a small business office. I breathed in the fresh autumn air, gathered my courage and found the others — a chaplain, a social worker the company commander and a senior officer from the post hospital. Solemnly we walked into the building and asked to speak privately with the young wife of a United States Army first sergeant who had recently returned from a 15-month deployment to Afghanistan. The moment she spotted us, she knew why we were there, and she burst into tears. “No!” she cried. “No! I cannot do this,” she said, her head in her hands and her knees buckling. A work colleague caught her and eased her into a chair.View More
