What you are doing is preventing them from killing themselves and becoming homeless and drug addicts and alcoholics.
Derrick Van Orden: “What you are doing is preventing them from killing themselves and becoming homeless and drug addicts and alcoholics.”
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Van Orden highlights the importance of transition programs for veterans' mental health.
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