Four months after returning home from Iraq, Army reservist Jason Cooper hanged himself. And not even ‘patriotic’ entreaties or vandalism will stop his mother from flying the flag upside down.
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Terri Jones lost her son Jason Cooper just over a year ago.
He was an Army Reservist in the Iraq War.
On July 14, 2005, four months after returning home to Iowa, he hanged himself.
He was 23.
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Now a member of Gold Star Families for Peace, Jones says she’s “forming a subchapter support group to help with military families who’ve had a suicide” after their loved one returned home.
“So far we know of about 70” such tragedies, she says.
Read the whole article: MOTHER OF SUICIDE VET FLIES OLD GLORY UPSIDE DOWN ~ Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive ~ July 18, 2006