Guns, Booze, and Suicide: How "Stupid" Saved A Life

This is another great story about a veteran of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, contemplating suicide. The ending is different, but it starts this vets life over to a new beginning.

He told me he’d contemplated suicide once. He wasn’t one to open up about himself like that. He could tell a great joke and loved talking about hunting, but forget about anything more personal than that. He’d been a student of mine the year before, and after finishing the veteran reintegration class I teach at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, he and I kept in touch. We’re about the same age, and he and I both have young kids, and so I saw him more as a peer than as a student.