David Roe: “The problem we are trying to solve is the achievement gap, and we know that the achievement gap begins really almost at…”

If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.

I want to thank you for having this. I think we should continue this, because this is a travesty in the United States to have these kinds of mortality rates.

With all the metrics and good intentions and all of that, the suicide rates have not changed, so we need to do something different.

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.