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The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

There's a story that you may have heard kicked around in the newspapers and nightly news for the last few months. It's as unsettling as it is tragic. The rate of suicide among active military personnel, reservists, and veterans has increased to nearly 22 suicides a day. 22 every day, even as more resources are being allocated to prevent it--and finding a solution is likely as complicated as understanding why. Veterans Stacy Bare and Nick Watson know the struggles that service members face as they readjust to civilian life. Addiction. Depression. An overwhelming feeling of being out of place. But over time, both found a place in the outdoors and the surrounding community to recreate what they missed from the military, and to feel like they had really come home. And they didn’t stop there--they became determined to find a way to make that transition easier for other veterans too. Today, we bring you their stories and the story of how these two veteran's are creating a community for other veterans on the home front. This episode does contain graphic descriptions of violence and adult language. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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0:00.0	I've been involved in the Patagonia field testing program for over 20 years right now.
0:08.4	For silent sports done in nature.
0:10.6	That's the feeling.
0:11.6	That's the feeling that I fell in love with with climate.
0:14.5	Cause new and necessary harm.
0:15.9	The organic cotton and recycle polyester to recycling the clothing to measuring our carbon
0:21.6	footprint.
0:22.6	Inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis to give some love back to the server
0:28.0	that doesn't happen.
0:29.6	It's not getting any love.
0:31.6	See what drives us at Patagonia.com.
0:36.6	Welcome to the Dura Bag Darius, a duct tape and beer production with additional support
0:42.0	from Coat Racks and New Belgium Brewing.
0:46.5	Today we're going to start with a fact.
0:48.7	When you might have heard briefly kicked around in the newspapers and nightly news in the
0:51.8	last few months.
0:53.8	Before we go any further, I need to say that today's episode contains unsettling adult
0:57.9	topics and graphic description of violence.
1:02.1	Here we go.
1:04.4	Every 18 hours an active duty troop, reservist or national guard member commits suicide.
1:09.5	In 2012, more soldiers killed themselves than lost their lives on the battlefield.
1:15.0	And if you look at veterans, that number goes through the roof.
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