In 2005, more than 6,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took their lives. By some estimates, veterans are attempting suicide 1,000 times a month. Marine Corporal James Jenkins, a decorated war hero, took his life after serving two tours of duty in Iraq. He joined to pay for college, but after 22 months of combat, came back a different man. He had seen his friends killed and others commit suicide. He later told his mother that he himself had killed 212 people, some who didn’t deserve to die. When he called his mother two days before he took his own life, Jenkins said that he couldn’t live with himself. The Marines taught us when your back is against the wall you take your own life, he told her. His mother, Cynthia Fleming, shares his story with the American News Project - a tragedy that is being repeated 15 times a day in this country.

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