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Derrick Van Orden: “No one's going to commit suicide on my watch because I…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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VFW Podcast Episode 50: Let Us Reason Together

Published | Video Starts at 44:38

Because I beat the army. But, yeah, so stupid. So I get up in people's grills all the time, and I'm like, how's your melon? How is it right? No one's going to commit suicide on my watch because I didn't intervene. when I. And you do this, too. You see somebody missing arms, legs, half their face or whatever, go up and ask them what happened to them, where it happened and how their melon is. (44:38–44:42)

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Asserts his commitment to preventing suicide among peers.

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