(½) “Everyone who comes back from deployment fills out a...

(½) “Everyone who comes back from deployment fills out a form. It’s a standard psychological evaluation. It asks about drug use, sleeping habits, things like that. We filed a Freedom of Information Act to see Stephen’s. He checked a box that said he thought about suicide. And they sent him home. The counselor just scheduled a sleep study and sent him home. And he hung himself with an electrical cord. Stephen should have never been a soldier. He was a happy, go-lucky guy. We used to go camping all the time when we were little. He disappeared from the campsite once and we found him in the woods with chipmunks in his hand. He never wanted to hurt anything. If there were ever ants in the house, he would take them outside. He never told me about the war. I don’t know how it affected him. And I can’t say what caused his death. Personally I think it was PTSD. But his wife had recently left him. He’d gotten demoted. But it doesn’t matter. He told them he thought about suicide. He checked that box. And they still sent him home. So whether it’s right or wrong—I do blame them. If someone says they are thinking of suicide, you need to listen.”