by KATE BANVILLE
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Subscriber only A MILITARY flag made its way across the nation garnering signatures from veterans to raise the flag for mental health . Neil Wally Wallace started an online blog called Wally s Chinwag after he was discharged from the Army in 2014 and struggled to navigate the process, and life afterwards. Feeling like he wanted to do more, Wally recreated a military tradition of signing military flags on operations and started sending his own to friends, and anyone who wanted to show support in breaking down the stigma of mental illness. It s now in Townsville at Australian Warfighter Coffee to start a conversation about suicide rates in the veteran community.