Each day 17 veterans commit suicide. A new campaign featuring soldiers' stories is trying to change that

In Afghanistan, Chris Groleau was a minesweeper - the soldier who walks ahead of his platoon, waving a long metal device back and forth over the ground, listening for the array of beeps that can signal a deadly bomb is buried underfoot.

It made perfect sense that he was in a state of high alert, he said. But when he came back to the U.S., he couldn't turn off that nerve-jangling feeling of life-or-death danger.

And then, too, he was struggling with the loss of one of his sergeants, who died at the end of his deployment.

"There were multiple very serious