Suicide in the Recruiters' Ranks
Ashley Gilbertson / VII Network for Time
Disbelief
"For the two years he was in Iraq," Robert says, "I'd turn down the street and be terrified there'd be a car with a set of government plates on it when I got home, telling me that he'd been killed. Suicide was the last scenario I'd ever come up with."
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