08/26/2015
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"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."
"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 ..."
"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 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."