'Denial in the Corps' Sparks Video

Investigative Fund Article by Kathy Dobie

A February 2008 article, Denial in the Corps, by Kathy Dobie, supported by the Institute's Investigative Fund and published in The Nation magazine, was recently revisited by the nascent video journalism website, American News Project. Working from Dobie's investigative article about returned Marines with PTSD who receive punishment, rather than treatment, the video features Cynthia Fleming, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. James Jenkins, a decorated Marine who returned from Iraq with PTSD and killed himself after being denied treatment.

Dobie's article begins, "Marine Lance Cpl. James Jenkins is buried in the same New Jersey cemetery that he used to run through on his way to high school, stopping at the Eat Good Bakery to get two glazed doughnuts and an orange juice before heading off to class. When his mother, Cynthia Fleming, visits his grave, she looks over the low cemetery wall at not only the bakery but the used-car lot where James used to sell Christmas trees during the winter and the nursing home where he worked every summer and says, "Lord, son, you're on your own turf." James, who died at 23, is buried in Greenwood Cemetery; the owners told Cynthia they're proud to have him there."

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