{"id":34606,"date":"2013-03-18T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34606"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:24:47","slug":"capt-peter-linnerooth-the-man-who-couldnt-save-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34606","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Peter Linnerooth; the man who couldn&#8217;t save himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of you have sent me links over the past few days in regards to Capt. Peter Linnerooth, an Army psychiatrist who helped all of the soldiers he came in contact with, but couldn&#8217;t find the strength to help himself. I haven&#8217;t been ignoring you all, I just couldn&#8217;t think of anything worthwhile to say about it, but here&#8217;s a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/03\/18\/vet-who-saved-many-in-iraq-couldnt-escape-demons\/%20?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>, discuss it among yourselves, since you all obviously want to; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linnerooth did such a good job his Army comrades dubbed him The Wizard. His &#8220;magic&#8221; was deceptively simple: an instant rapport with soldiers, an empathetic manner, a big heart.<\/p>\n<p>For a year during one of the bloodiest stretches of the Iraq war, Linnerooth met with soldiers 60 to 70 hours a week. Sometimes he&#8217;d hop on helicopters or join convoys, risking mortars and roadside bombs. Often, though, the soldiers came to his shoebox-sized &#8220;office&#8221; at Camp Liberty in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He became a college professor in Minnesota, then counseled vets in California and Nevada. He&#8217;d done much to help the troops, but in his mind, it wasn&#8217;t enough. He worried about veteran suicides. He wrote about professional burnout. He grappled with PTSD, depression and anger, his despair spiraling into an overdose. He divorced and married again. He fought valiantly to get his life in order.<\/p>\n<p>But he couldn&#8217;t make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>As the new year dawned, Pete Linnerooth, Bronze Star recipient, admired Army captain, devoted father, turned his gun on himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of you have sent me links over the past few days in regards to Capt. &hellip; <a title=\"Capt. Peter Linnerooth; the man who couldn&#8217;t save himself\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34606\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Capt. Peter Linnerooth; the man who couldn&#8217;t save himself<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}