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J. Michael Haynie
Haynie recently spoke with Lauren Schellin, a member of the Wisconsin Army National Guard. Over the past six months, Schellin has experienced the loss of four members of her National Guard unit to suicide. While Schellin’s story may sound shocking, Haynie says that as a veteran and veteran advocate himself, he has heard of far too many similar experiences amongst families struggling with “the epidemic of suicide among service members and veterans.”
Several years ago Haynie gave a TED Talk called “The Moral Obligation to Know Our Veterans,” where he encouraged all people to truly get to know veterans and military families. “Too often military service has the effect of socially isolating those who serve from their families, friends and communities. Sometimes that isolation comes at a traumatic cost,” writes Haynie.
Posted by Correspondent | Jan 21, 2021 | Articles |
More than 550 Citizen Soldiers and Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard were on hand at the 59th presidential inauguration in Washington DC on January 20 after mobilizing over the weekend to assist with safety and security efforts at the inauguration.
Wisconsin troops joined more than 25,000 other National Guard troops from every other state and territory in supporting the mission. The Citizen Soldiers began mobilizing January 15 in response to a request for assistance to the National Guard at the federal level, and they boarded KC-135s from the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s Milwaukee-based 128th Air Refueling Wing on several flights early January 16.