A former soldier has turned his life around after getting mixed up in kidnapping for a gang and serving an 11-year prison term. Now, he’s helping other veterans stay off the streets, hoping to keep people from making the same mistakes he made. “I was in a bad way,” Darren Wright told The Manchester Evening News. “I didn’t want to live. I just didn’t care about life.” That’s how it felt after Darren left the military and returned to civilian life. “When I joined, the army became my family. When you leave you miss all that,” he said. Darren had joined the army to “get a better life” for himself and his kids, but he was unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead. “I tried taking my own life and spent three months in a wheelchair,” he said. “I threw myself in front of a car.” He started self-medicating with …