NPR Morning Edition: When a Soldier Bring War Back Home
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“He didn’t want to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He said ‘I don’t want that. What the hell is that? I don’t want that.’”
Many fallen soldiers have died in combat, but increasingly, for off-duty members of the National Guard and Army Reserves, soldiers are dying by their own hands. Nationally, the number of those who’ve committed suicide has nearly doubled from 80 in 2009 to 145 in 2010. The family and friends of Sgt. Ivan Lopez remember his life cut short by war.
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NPR Morning Edition: A Friend Calls, and a Best Friend Moves to Help
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“We both had French class in Montgomery, Alabama…Our friendship blossomed from there. Were were just inseparable.”
When members of the armed forces are deployed, it’s often up to the other parent, or a family member, to care for their children. But what happens when there’s no family around to help? For Navy operations specialist Sheena Sullen, that meant calling on an old friend, Jihan Sanders. Sanders moved from Alabama to help care for Sullen’s children while she’s away.
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