The Night Before Leave: An Airborne Vet on Loss, Survivor's Guilt & Finding His People

The night before he went home on leave, Jeremiah was pulled off a patrol and that patrol never made it back through the gate.

In Part 2, the Airborne Infantry veteran walks through the loss that followed him home from Iraq, taking a grenade on a Mosul rooftop, getting out into a VA that wasn't ready for his generation, and the years he spent isolated. Then a stranger handed him an Eagle Ops card and offered free ammo at a rifle match.

This is a story about survivor's guilt, the voice that lies to you, and what happens when a veteran finally finds his people and starts reaching the next one.

Content note: discussion of combat loss and suicidal thoughts.

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