Jeremy Stalnecker

Taking a life, seeing friends who lose their lives and all the damage and things that happen on the battlefield.

Your entire life is spent avoiding those things and now you're dropped in the middle of them.

And you have other people around you to support you, others who are going through the same thing, but it's not dealt with.

And when you then separate out of that environment, that military environment, you're all alone with your thoughts, your feelings, the emotions, the traumas, the hurt, the brokenness that you've never dealt with.

And you have a decision to make.

And again, it is very important for me to say, you know, I talk about this even in our program.

You talk to young people who are sexually abused and, you

you know, spouse, spouses who deal with abuse and there's so much trauma, so much brokenness and so much hurt in our world.

This is not reserved for veterans.

Um, however, the cause of particularly combat veterans coming home and dealing with these things and trying to move beyond them.

Um, I mean, we see it, we see it in the numbers, more than 22 veterans a day take their lives.

More than four active duty service members a day take their lives.

These are real numbers that speak to the consequence of life experience undealt with.

Yeah, that's a great question.

Well, it starts by giving hope.

I think one of the challenges for a family member or a friend is,

who's watching someone that they care about deal with this is just that there's no hope.

What do I do?

I don't know what to do or how to help them or where to send them.

And the fact that we have a program that is designed to help those who are hurting, a program that doesn't cost anything.