David Roe: “We would be neglecting our duty if we simply looked the other way.”

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.

I think we are moving in the right direction.

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 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.