Joe and Earl Granville's Story

Military addresses suicides
Lebanon Daily News
By BRAD RHEN
Updated: 06/13/2013

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP - Earl Granville deployed three times with the Pennsylvania National Guard's 1/109th Infantry, once each to Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

His twin brother, Joe, joined him on the first two. The two attended basic training together and were in the same Guard unit.

But when Earl deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, Joe did not go. He had a full-time job and two young children to care for.

During that deployment, Earl lost his left leg when a roadside bomb exploded under the vehicle in which he was riding.

Two years after he returned home, he lost his brother.

Wracked by guilt over friends who were killed during their deployment to Iraq and over not being there when his brother was wounded, Joe committed suicide.
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