Sept. 19, 2024
            
                 Suicide Prevention Month Commentary: Employee shares personal story  
            
            
                
                
                    FORT BELVOIR, Va.  —
                
                
                In February 2002, after returning from two weeks of annual training in Kaiserslautern, Germany, while serving in the Army Reserve, attending community college full-time, and not working, I decided to enter the active-duty Army. Because I was a single mother, that required me to give up custody of my son.