{"id":6916,"date":"2014-07-26T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2019-05-16T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:56:25","slug":"christopher-palmer-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6916","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Palmer, 38"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arizona National Guardsman and former Marine Sergeant Christopher Palmer, of Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n

Palmer enlisted in the Marines right out of high school and later worked for the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s Department. He would later enlist in the Marine Reserves serving two tours in Iraq before serving with the Arizona Army National Guard in Tucson.<\/p>\n

This story is shared by Sgt Palmer\u2019s ex-wife, Gina Manson, she is speaking out because she wants people to understand why he died by suicide. Manson says, \u201cHe\u2019s not a criminal. He\u2019s not a bad person. He\u2019s a veteran. He was a soldier crying out for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sergeant Christopher Palmer lost his battle with PTS, July 26, 2011, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 38 years old.<\/p>\n

Sgt Christopher Palmer\u2019s story:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Arizona National Guard Soldiers slipping through the cracks as veteran suicide rates rise:<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Add your loved one to the wall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona National Guardsman and former Marine Sergeant Christopher Palmer, of Tucson, Arizona. Palmer enlisted in the Marines right out of high school and later worked for the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s Department. He would later enlist in the Marine Reserves serving two tours in Iraq before serving with the Arizona Army …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}