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Graham Platner: “I got home from my fourth deployment in 2011 and I got out…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner joins Morning Joe

Published | Video Starts at 07:55

It requires, at least in my case, it required a lot of love and support from my community and my family. It required a lot of support from the va, which I'm very lucky that I got. I got home from my fourth deployment in 2011 and I got out of the army in 2012. 2012 to 2016 was pretty dark for me. I was in Washington D.C. i was going to college, but I was not. I felt very isolated, very, very alone at that point, was receiving no treatment whatsoever. (07:55–08:02)

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