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Welcome back.
A Chaplain's Assistant shares a story of a near death experience with other soldiers
in an effort to save lives.
Sergeant Frank Brown reports.
The old folks say it doesn't matter how many times you fall
but how many times you get up.
Specialist MIchael Isaacs is a husband of one,
a father of three, and a friend to many.
He's the kind of guy with that infectious kind of laugh, [Isaacs laughs]
someone who makes you want to smile too.
But it's no laughing matter when he shares a story of one dark night
in the life of someone very close.
[Isaacs] I knew this guy.
He was going through some issues with his girlfriend.
[Brown] He was 16, and due to pressure at school and a harsh breakup with his girlfriend,
he decided that there was no purpose for living.
And he turned around and went into the cabinet, and he grabbed the pills,
and he just took the whole bottle.
[Brown] He began losing consciousness when...
He had a moment of clarity, like, "What did I just do?"
[Brown] Luckily, his parents made it home just in time
and rushed him to the hospital.
[Isaacs] And my mom was like, "No, stay up, baby. Stay up. Don't go to sleep."
[Brown] But it was almost too late.
And before you know it, he blacked out.
[Brown] Doctors worked around the clock to revive the young man.
The last thing he remembered hearing that night was...
[Isaacs] A slight beep, like, beep, beep.
[Brown] Fortunately, he made it through the night.
But you know, the funny thing about that story is that I'm that guy,
and I know exactly what it is to think that there's nothing else worth living for.
[Brown] He may have fallen before, but he got up,
and he's standing strong in the battle against suicide.
We don't need to lose nobody else.
The enemy wants to take us out so bad.
He comes in in so many different forms and fashions--
drugs, alcohol, diseases, suicide.
It's just coming out of so many different directions, and this is just one that we can fight
because it's a choice.
[Brown] Nineteen years later, Specialist Isaacs lives to share his story
with new soldiers in Ansbach.
This is more motivation and more of a reason why I'm here.
Reporting from Katterbach, I'm Army Sergeant Frank Brown.