David Roe: “Offering some of the most basic assistance would be prohibited, such as advice on rolling over funds from a 401(k) to an…”

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

The VA is not meeting all the needs, otherwise the suicide rate would not be 20 a day and staying there.

We have to reach out and try to find those 14 who never get to the VA, never get the care.

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.