David Roe: “But it is incumbent on us to serve the ones who did make it back.”

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

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.

the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency…

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