The Life & Lonely Death of Noah Pierce

In 2003, Noah Pierce joined the Army, and left his home town of Sparta, Minnesota a quiet gentle boy of eighteen. He completed two tours of duty in Iraq, and came home with severe PTSD. Immense guilt and despair went untreated and ignored by Veterens Affairs, and on July 25, 2007, Noah drove to his favorite hangout the woods, wedged his dog tag between his temple and a pistol, and shot himself. In doing so, Noah became one of 700 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to commit suicide each month.