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And we return to our American stories.

Our next story comes to us from Kevin Briggs.

Kevin is a former sergeant in the California

Highway Patrol, and most of us know that by the word chips. But he's also known as the Guardian

of the Golden Gate Bridge because he's persuaded over 200 people from taking their lives by jumping off

the 245 foot span across the Golden Gate Strait.

Here's Kevin describing one of his experiences trying to prevent a man from jumping off the bridge. I believe it was July 22nd of 2013.

This gentleman was from New Jersey, had flown all the way out to the bridge.

Extremely intelligent guy.

I think he was just 32.

And he had been suffering for a long time with bipolar.

And he felt he was not getting the treatment that he should.

One of the biggest things also was he was gay, family was Jewish,

and he did not want to tell his father that he was gay.

We talked for about an hour, and then this gentleman asked us

if we knew the story of Pandora's Box.

And I said yes, I didn't remember it really all that fantastic, but apparently Zeus created Pandora and sent her down to Earth

with a box and said never, ever, ever open this box. Well, of course she does and outflies all

sorts of plagues and sorrows and things against man.

The only good thing to come out of that box was hope.

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