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Another writes:
As an Iraq vet, I have to say thanks and well done on the Mike Piro interview. These are exactly the kinds of things needed to address the suicide stigma.
If you want a glimpse of the intense conversation, below is Mikey’s account of grappling with the aftermath of a suicide bombing in a marketplace, as Iraq descended into anarchy:
And if you want to understand the challenges of witnessing that kind of horror and then returning to America to take up daily life again, this clip may help:
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(Photo: A grave of a Sunni who was killed by Shia militiamen, on March 6, 2008 in Adhamiya, Baghdad, Iraq. Locals started burying their killed relatives in a patch of grass behind a mosque two years before, but by March 2008 it contained more than 3000 graves of victims of sectarian violence. By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/Getty Images.)
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