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Army veteran T.J. Norton, 31, of Sacramento, collects his thoughts during his graduation from Pathway Home in Yountville, Calif. His 11-year-old daughter, Claire, and her teddy bear Topher, provided support. Following his 2005 discharge from the Army, he hit bottom last October and thought about suicide. Pathway Home offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. Norton graduated with seven other military veterans during the ceremony on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Yountville, Calif. -
Army veteran T.J. Norton, 31, of Sacramento, embraces his 11-year-old daughter, Claire, and her teddy bear Topher, speaks about his difficulties following his 2005 discharge from the Army during his graduation from Pathway Home in Yountville, Calif. He hit bottom last October and thought about suicide. Pathway Home offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. Norton graduated with seven other military veterans during the ceremony on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Yountville, Calif. -
Pathway Home unit manager Kathy Loughry stands by during graduation ceremonies for seven military veterans from the Napa Valley non-profit which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 in Yountville, Calif. -
Army veteran Adam Duncan, 32, of Sacramento, wept as he gave his thank you's during graduation ceremonies from Pathway Home, which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. "I think this place saved my life," he said softly. "And I know I didn't have a lot of time left out there on my own." Duncan graduated with seven other military veterans during the ceremony Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 in Yountville, Calif. -
There were a record 349 suicides last year in the active-duty military, many more deaths than in the Afghanistan war. A just-released government estimate says 22 vets die by suicide every day -- some 20 percent of all Americans who kill themselves. Pathway Home, in Yountville, calif., offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. -
Army veteran Adam Duncan, of Sacramento, talks with Marine veteran Bret McCauley during graduation ceremonies from Pathway Home, which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. Duncan graduated with seven other military veterans during the ceremony Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 in Yountville, Calif. -
Pathway Home executive director Fred Gusman addresses friends and family of seven military veterans who graduated from the Napa Valley non-profit, which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life. -
Vets sit together and with family during Pathway Home graduation ceremonies for seven military veterans from the Napa Valley non-profit which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 -
Army veteran T.J. Norton, of Sacramento, holds his 11-year-old daughter Claire's teddy bear Topher, during graduation ceremonies from Pathway Home, which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life, in Yountville, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. -
Army veteran Dale Fishgrab, of New Mexico, hugs Pathway Home unit manager Kathy Loughry during graduation ceremonies from the Napa Valley non-profit, which offers counseling programs for troubled vets to help them succeed in civilian life on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Yountville, Calif.
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