The growing number of veteran suicides is an issue that took center stage at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix on Tuesday.
It has been a hot-button issue for veterans for a while, but in Phoenix it was magnified two weeks ago by the suicide of a veteran on VA property.
"I think he's a martyr for what he did," veteran Brandon Coleman said of Thomas Murphy, who tragically took his life while sitting in the parking lot of the VA administrative offices in downtown Phoenix.
"I believe it was a symbolic act and that he did it because he would want us to talk about it," Coleman said.
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