“You Are Never Too Heavy I Will Carry You.”

Military veteran John Newcomb walks through upstate New York in uniform and wearing a pack. He’s carrying a figure, also in camo, that represents his fallen brothers — fellow vets who succumbed to suicide.

The figure, cradled tight in his arms, is a plastic skeleton.

“If you see this man walking in Troy, he has fought for our country. And is still fighting for his brothers and sisters,” said Stacy Kieper about Newcomb on Facebook. “By far one of the most amazing [and] beautiful things I’ve ever seen.”

A native of Watervliet, Newcomb has trekked all over his home region, taking his powerful gait through not only Troy, but Albany and Latham too.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 20 veterans take their own life everyday. A disturbing statistic, and one that reared its head in Newcomb’s personal life recently, and spurred him to spread the desolate message.

“Most of it was compulsion,” he told WIAT CBS 42. “I just lost another one from my company.”

He’s now urging men and women like himself — people who fought valiantly for their country — to seek help if they need it. To save themselves.

“Anything we deem burdensome we’re going to internalize and hold in our core until it rots us,” he said.