Clay W. Hunt, veterans’ advocate, dead of self-inflicted wound [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post

Clay W. Hunt, veterans’ advocate, dead of self-inflicted wound
By T. Rees Shapiro, Sunday, April 17, 10:28 PM

Clay W. Hunt, a decorated combat vet­eran of Iraq and Afghanistan who became a prominent advocate for troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after he left the Marines, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound March 31 at his apartment in Sugar Land, Tex. He was 28.

Mr. Hunt separated from the Marines as a corporal in April 2009 and went on to help earthquake victims in Haiti and Chile with Team Rubicon, a humanitarian aid organization founded by a fellow Marine.

“I was able to walk through a rubble-strewn, just destroyed city,” Mr. Hunt said in a Team Rubicon video. “It looked like it had just been carpet-bombed, and I didn’t have to worry about my own safety. I was there to do a job, to help people. And I had a renewed faith in humanity.”

He appeared in a television public-service announcement promoting mental health and awareness sponsored by the Ad Council and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a veterans’ support group.



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