Finding their own remedy: Veterans navigate a lack of mental health resources
Whenever Army National Guard veteran Dean Murray steps into a restaurant, he immediately scans the room to profile people, looking for potential danger.
After making sure there isn’t an immediate threat, he attempts to locate a back door to the restaurant that could serve as an entry point for dangerous people or an escape route in the case of trouble. Murray always tries to get seated at a table facing the front door to continue observing everything in the room as he dines.
Murray spent 28 years in the Army National Guard before he became one of more than 78,000 veterans living in Montana. According to a biennial report from the Montana Veterans Affairs released in 2022, veterans make up nearly 9% of the state’s adult population.
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