[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 17, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LET'S END VETERAN SUICIDE

  (Mr. GALLEGO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Speaker, few things we do here are more important 
than taking care of the men and women who have fought to protect our 
Nation. Doing something about the issue of suicide is incredibly 
important.
  Not so very long ago, I had the opportunity to talk to a person that 
I had known for a very long time who I had met while serving in the 
legislature and who told me that his son, who was a veteran, had come 
back and was doing fine; yet, one day, he got the phone call that his 
son had committed suicide. No family should go through that.
  Here in the Congress, we have an opportunity to do something about 
that. It is my hope that Congress, working in a bipartisan fashion, can 
work together to do something about this problem and to take better 
care across the board of the men and women who have fought every day, 
day in and day out, to serve our country.

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