Jeremy Stalnecker

Other people can't possibly struggle like this.

And so as I started to move forward,

I just said, I'm not going to look back.

This is me.

This is my journey.

This is my thing, right?

Like I need to grow through this, which was true.

But what wasn't true is that I was the only one who had dealt with that.

It took me about 10 years.

I got together 10 years after I'd served, you know, home from combat, home from Iraq.

And a couple of the guys that we'd served with got together and we all sat down and talked, about 10 of us.

And I hadn't talked to those guys in 10 years.

And what I started to hear was stories of suicide of some of the men that we had served with, combat deaths, those that had gone back to Iraq, and a lot of broken homes and people just struggling to get by.

And what I realized in that moment, and that was in 2012, and what I realized then was that, A, man, I'm not the only one who struggled like this.

But B, this gets to your point or to your question,

I figured it out because I had the right people in my life and walked this out as a faith journey.

I had a responsibility now to take that to the men that I had served with specifically, but then more broadly since 2012, to the men and women who serve.

There is an answer.

There is a path forward.

And I have a responsibility to share with others what was shared with important to me.