Author: Frank Larkin
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GUEST OPINION: Colorado can lead the charge in ending veteran isolation
Every day, we lose too many of America’s heroes — not to enemy fire, but to isolation and despair. These are men and women in Colorado and across the nation who once wore the uniform with honor, but now suffer silently, often alone. The crisis facing our veterans is one of the most urgent public…
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GUEST COLUMN: How we can help struggling troops and vets
The 988 suicide crisis hotline marked a one year anniversary recently. Reporting shows it received 5 million contacts in its first year, further evidence of America’s complicated mental health challenge that the U.S. surgeon general recently identified as a crisis. A driving force is often disconnection from friends and family, and that isolation is commonly…