Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

I'm Dan Premack. On today's show, the latest in Trump versus Amazon and the giant software IPO that was supposed to happen this week, but now won't.

But first, it's Veterans Day. And the mantra of Never Forget has begun to take on some tragic new meaning for those who came home from the battlefield, but then succumb to mental health issues at home.

Now, veteran suicide is a very tough thing to talk about or to listen about, but it has become epidemic.

According to the most recent VA report, there were more than 6,000 veteran suicides each year between 2008 and 2016, with the rate climbing nearly 26% during that time period.

There was a slight decrease between 2015 and 2016, which is the last year there's public data for, but in that same period, there was a spike, a big one, in prevalence among veterans between 18 and 34 years of age.

Equally troubling?

Veterans are more likely to attempt suicide with a firearm than are non-veterans, and that's generally considered to be the most lethal technique.

The question, therefore, and it's one you hear from politicians a lot, is what to do, particularly as we appear no closer

to ending our now 17-year war in Afghanistan, let alone lengthy deployments and other hotspots.

So for answers, we're going to turn to a very special guest. My wife, actually, Jennifer Primack,

a research psychologist at the Providence VA Medical Center, where she focuses on veteran suicide

and is a member of

the Consortium for Research Innovation and Suicide Prevention. We talk to her in 15 seconds, but first,

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We're joined now by Jennifer Primak, a research psychologist at the Providence VA Medical Center focused on veteran suicide.

So Jen, suicide's obviously a big

problem in America for veterans and non-veterans, but why do the rates specifically seem to be

rising among veterans? It's a pretty complicated question that we don't really know the answer for

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