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East Texas parents who lost son in 2019 continue fight against veteran suicide

Veterans are more likely than most to kill themselves with guns Families want to keep them safe

FLINT, Texas (AP) — She leaned out of the tent at a small-town summer festival, hoping someone would stop to ask about her tattoos, her T-shirt, the framed pictures of her son on a table in the …

Veterans more likely than most to kill themselves with guns, but families want to keep them safe

FLINT, Texas (AP) — She leaned out of the tent at a small-town summer festival, hoping someone would stop to ask about her tattoos, her T-shirt, the framed pictures of

Veterans are more likely than most to kill themselves with guns Families want to keep them safe

Barbie Rohde has made herself a walking billboard for this cause. Rohde reached underneath her display tables, grabbed a gun lock and wrapped it in a blue bandana, printed with the phone number for the Department of Veterans Affairs crisis line: call 988, press 1. Rohde runs the most active chapter of a nonprofit called Mission 22, aimed at ending the scourge of military and veteran suicide, which kills thousands every year, at a rate far higher than the general population.

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