She wasn't talking about
murder-suicide any more. It was going to be one day at a time for her
for a while. She now had somewhere on-base where she felt she could
turn, and people in whom she had some confidence.
Why hadn't the woman tried Family Services on her own? I don't know.
She chose the civilian community's suicide intervention resource. She
had other options, and she might have tried them too. What's my point?
Another instance in which military and civilian resources collaborated
and made the system work.
Returnee
At about 11 PM one night, I was working my shift at the SPS hotline
desk. A call came in from the switchboard supervisor at the city's
telephone company. The supervisor said she had a man on-line and he
was in a fury. She couldn't handle him. Would I take him? I told her to
let me have him, and he was on.
It took a while to get him down to where he could speak coherently. He
was an enlisted man in from Viet Nam, making his way to the East
Coast. His problem wasn't suicide, it was homicide. He was in a
barroom, he said, drinking and minding his own business.
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