Evening News and Tribune - Jeffersonville,IN,USA
5. ERIC HALL GOES MISSING, FOUND DEAD
The plight of Eric Hall, a Marine from Clark County who went missing near a relative’s home in Florida last winter, dealt a sad blow to the community in 2008.
Hall had been injured by a roadside blast while serving in Iraq in 2005. A fellow Marine was killed in the same blast.
Hall, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, moved from Jeffersonville to Florida upon his retirement to stay with relatives and get a fresh start.
However, shortly after he got there he began to experience war flashbacks and hallucinations. And one afternoon, he disappeared into a nearby woods.
For weeks, thousands helped search for the Marine, hoping to find him alive.
The 24-year-old’s body was later found in early March, badly decomposed, inside of a drainage culvert where he’d likely sought shelter.
His family organized a fundraiser in the summer to help raise money to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
— Compiled and written by Staff Writers David A. Mann and Matt Thacker and Editor Shea Van Hoy. Voted on by the staff of The Evening News.
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