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How to process guilt after a fellow veteran's suicide

My battle buddy killed himself last month and I keep thinking about how we promised we would check on each other but I had not talked to him in two years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of promises made in extremity can become unbearable when ordinary life makes them impossible to keep perfectly.

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