David Roe: “these kinds of programs can address a national security need as well as education and nutrition.”

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

Every time a life is lost to suicide, it is a tragedy.

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

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.