As Suicides Climb, a Search for 'Why?'

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As Suicides Climb, a Search for 'Why?'
December 01, 2008
Olympia Olympian

"Do you think that God's going to send me to hell for killing innocent people?" former Sgt. Joshua Barber asked his wife one day last summer.

Kelly Barber tried to reassure her distraught husband. Nearly three years after a combat tour in Iraq, he was a shell of the loving and fun-loving man she'd married nine years earlier.

Joshua Barber was quiet, withdrawn, constantly fighting demons he couldn't exorcise. His question reinforced her fear that he was sliding further into a well of guilt and despair as she tried desperately to hold on.

The couple had sought help from the Army and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, but Kelly Barber said they got caught up in red tape.

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The 31-year-old Soldier killed himself three weeks after asking that terrible question.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/as-suicides-climb-a-search-for-why.html?col=1186032310810

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1. Rest in Peace, Joshua Barber; We will never forget!

I hope Kelly Barber knows her husband is not "going to Hell".

Hell is reserved for those who

WANTED

this thing to happen.