“After being served those papers, man, it was devastating. I felt like a failure. I felt a level of hopelessness. I felt like the world was crashing down on me.” Staff Sergeant Sylvester Jenkins was finishing his third tour in Iraq when he got the divorce papers. By the time he got home a couple months later, his life was a wreck. He recalls, “The car was gone, the furniture in the house, my bank account drained. I literally came back home to nothing. Walking into that house and experiencing that was one of the most devastating days of my life.” The love and family he’d always wanted was gone dredging up the trauma of his rough, lonely childhood. Sylvester says, “Growing up in a single parent, low-income home, gang and drug infested neighborhood. You only had three things that you can do.

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