By Katelyn Caralle, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:13 BST, 2 June 2019 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 2 June 2019
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Marine Veteran and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Seth Moulton brought mental health and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in U.S. veterans to the forefront of his campaign.
The Massachusetts representative described his time serving and his experience with PTSD after returning home after four tours in Iraq – specifically after seeing children wounded in the war-torn country.
'I admit, this is a place where I did not have the courage to share my own story, because I was afraid of the political consequences,' Moulton told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired during State of the Union on Sunday morning.
He is just one of the 24 Democratic candidates running for president in 2020, and usually doesn't even poll within the top half of candidates among likely Democratic primary voters.
Presidential candidate and Marine veteran Seth Moulton spoke to CNN about his experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving four tours in Iraq
Moulton detailed an experience in the interview where he made the decision to leave a wounded Iraqi boy behind, a decision he says haunts him to this day and contributed to his mental illness.
'The Marines just a few hundred yards ahead of us shot up some cars and buses that they thought were full of enemy troops. But at least one car was an Iraqi family, just fleeing the violence,' the presidential candidate recalled.
'There is a boy, probably about five years old, lying in the middle of the road, wounded
