Alarming trend of military family members committing suicide

Survivor Suicides
News Team 4
Alarming trend of family members committing suicide after service members die in battle
By Tisha Thompson and Rick Yarborough
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Bill and Christine Koch had it all.

“I would describe us as the all-American family," Bill said.

Good jobs. Three kids. Family vacations.

Christine Koch agreed. “I would do it all over again. We had a fairytale life.”

Until a year into their youngest son Steven's first deployment in Afghanistan. Christine said she can still remember how he admitted on the phone for the first time to her that he was scared with the increasing number of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

"He said, ‘I don't know how much longer my luck is going to hold out,’” Christine explained. “He actually said that to me and my heart sunk."

A month later, with just a few weeks to go before returning home, the Kochs heard their doorbell ring.
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