Examine the final few of the nearly 22 years lived by Sgt. Patrick Gibbs Jr. — a newly discharged Army sniper and son of a former Davenport mayor — and there is no clear understanding of why the ex-soldier, a year removed from active duty in Iraq, wrapped an extension cord around his neck and took his life in the basement of his boyhood Davenport home on Jan. 23.

I think that coming back and discovering that the folks you were killing really aren't that different from the folks you're protecting can be problematic on several different levels ...