Photos: Suicide among war contractors
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One family's story
Barb Dill visits her husband's grave in Shasta County on the one-year anniversary of his suicide. Wade Dill, a Marine Corps veteran, worked as a civilian contractor in Iraq, and three weeks after he returned home for good, he shot himself in the head.
"There are many people falling through the cracks," says Paul Brand, the CEO of Mission Critical Psychological Services. "Can the government really send people to a war zone and neglect their responsibility to attend to their emotional needs after the fact?"
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