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How you can help veterans every day

  • Written by Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
imageU.S. Army veteran Derek Martin gives his son a big hug at a veteran support group cookout on Nov. 7, 2015. Jon Hatch/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

As the nation celebrates our 17 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the number of these heroes who are ending their own lives prematurely is rising.

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