David Roe: “Armed with the facts, we must begin charting a new and better course.”

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.

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

I think some people are locked and loaded and ready to go right now; I agree with you.

I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is suicide.