Army Reports Record Number of Suicides -- CBS NewsUnit Leaders Are Now Being Trained to Better Spot Warning Signs, Encourage Soldiers to Get Professional Help.
(CBS) After returning from Iraq in 2006, Staff Sgt. Sarah Campbell Hester was looking forward to enjoying life, newly married to a soldier who had also just returned from war, reports CBS News correspondent Don Teague.
"He was just funny, he was the ultimate prankster, very solid with the unit," Hester said.
But secretly her husband was a man in crisis, unable to readjust to life after war.
"Iraq changed him, he came back kind of an angry man," Hester said.
One month after their wedding, Richard Hester, 34, committed suicide.
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My Comment: This crisis will continue long after the fighting has stopped. My father was a Second World War vet who fought on the Russian front, and it seemed that he always carried the war with him until he passed away a few years ago.