For retired US Air Force veteran Sonny Graham, the overcast spring day in 2008 had begun like any other.
At about 7.30am, he had gone to his local store in Vidalia, Georgia, to buy supplies for his landscaping business and, on returning home, made himself a coffee and took it out to his shed.
But after placing the mug on a table next to him, Sonny shot himself dead.
For his family, their shock and grief were compounded by disbelief that he had chosen to end his life in the same way as 33-year-old Terry Cottle – the man whose suicide 13 years
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