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You work so hard to bring back our soldiers and you celebrate when they come home, ” says Ingrid Tighe, an Army Captain who served with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq. “Then you lose someone at home it just eats you up inside.” She was one of five Storm the Hill veterans I sat down with to talk about their efforts and the issue of veteran suicides. Another, Jeremy Newton, who flew F-18 fighter jets in the Navy said, “If we were losing 22 a day on the battlefield there would be an outcry.
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