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22 2 NONE - OUR PURPOSE The number of veteran suicides is alarming. While on active duty and working side-by-side, everyone had each other's backs, with the mentality of never leaving a man behind. Re-entering civilian life is a large adjustment
Dealing With Despair
By Hannah Bouwmeester Some of the prevailing mental health issues Veterans and others of us deal with today are depression, PTSD, despair, survivor’s guilt, or other negative emotional states. People generally deal with these states more and more in our argumentative,
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
By Amanda Renkiewicz - Photos from the Traverse City Out of the Darkness Walk Coordinators It’s a shocking fact: each year, suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined. Despite that, funding for prevention efforts for suicide was
Derrick Cox – There’s Always A Tomorrow
By Mike Kent Derrick Cox remembers the steel being cold and hard on his lips. It smelled of carbon and tasted of oil. He was in a deep, dark hole and saw no way out. The gun in his mouth was
Finding Purpose Again – Nick Dmitruchina
By Rachael Sherman Nick Dmitruchina is a retired Marine and always carried himself with confidence and was known for doing his job well and with pride. No one knew that he used work as a coping mechanism to deal with the
Dear Suicide
By Lin Oppenorth Dear Suicide, Perhaps I’ve waited too long to address you. Perhaps the pain, inflicted by Loss, and accompanied by Shame, has kept my feelings toward you locked away, and made Silence appear to be my only option. After all,
