“I can’t continue to hear the 21 shots and watch grown men crying like they are five years old.”

That’s what Lauren Schellin, a member of the Wisconsin Army National Guard who is also married to a National Guard soldier, wrote to me from Richfield, Wisconsin. Her National Guard unit lost its first soldier to suicide in October 2020. By itself, that loss was hard, but her rural Wisconsin community grew more concerned when in November, another soldier took his own life.