The civilian community. Many veterans do it. Many active duty do it, with not even a skip of a beat. But many struggle with these issues. And we know they struggle because we see we see evidence in all the legal problems, many of our veterans are having. We also know that there is a great deal of homelessness in our veterans population. I guess the employment issues that Everybody Knows about, and ultimately the saddest of the statistics is all of the suicide we are hearing about. Sampsa and other organizations tell us anywhere from 22 upwards to 30 a day, veterans commit suicide. And we know at least one active duty dov military member commits suicide. These are tragedies that we really have to muster up and fight. But the good news, even with all the difficulty many of our veterans are facing, is that in each community there are great supports that nami needs to connect up with. And theyre called vsos, our veteran Service Organizations. There are a great many veteran Service Organiza
Is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful and unexpected life. After diagnosis. Im proud to say that im living proof that someone can live, love and thrive with bipolar disorder if at tthey get connec with professional resources and accept support as soon as possible. That is why im participating in a Mental Health listening and engagement tour, by getting to meet people like you im learning more about the issues that face the Mental Health community. I hope to do my part to make things a little easier for others and to reduce the shame associated with Mental Illness. I want to do what i can to make things better for others by becoming the most strong, informed Mental Illness advocate that i can be. Today we have a chance to make history with nami. An organization that has been the forefront of advancing Mental Health in this country for decades. Weve seen increased attention to o
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and then we will hear, we ll close up the panel with dr. barbara van dahlen, founder and president of give an hour. so again think you for the work you are doing and for the testimony you are about to give us. jacob, let s begin with you. please bear with me while i read you a few names. sham, jensen, stewart, ross, rios, marco, clay hunt. in 2008 my unit redeployed home after a long and bloody to. seven month we lost 29, suffered nearly two dozen affectations and took over 150 caches. a name such as read, however, were not among those statistics. the names i just read are the names of the men we lost in the last four years. names of the men we lost to suicide while pursuing our peace. that lasting, clay hunt, belonged to my dear friend and cyber partner. clay was a good man, great marine and an incredible humanitarian. clay helped me start amortization called team rubicon, a nonprofit for continued service followi
generation. it was entirely possible that incapables genetically of saying yes. most of these points of the end of the day proved right. they did not come as any orrprise to dennis or aaron the diplomatic team leading the debt delegation, but it was still a role that we consciously knew we could not be the people who constantly said know. so we asked ourselves, how does the team of experts find any utility in what intelligence has to say? to his credit, dennis ross expert used to come and speak to us. he said do not take it personally that he really had anything great to tell them. needed backs to anchor the policy. they wanted the truth what he said was i realize my job is to imagine the art of the possible. our job was to remind him what was probable. i sank given that relationship, it needed to be close and continuing honest. i think it really was. .t was a challenging time he played a unique and i think unprecedented role as the director of central intelligence in nego