Help Our Heroes Fight The Battles They Can No Longer Fight Alone
Here at the Ruyts Foundation of Veteran Suicide Prevention, our mission is to bring awareness to veteran suicide and help stop it from even taking place.
Our Mission
We must stand together and put an end to veteran suicide. While one person may not make a difference, we believe those that band together can and will! Suicide needs to become a thing of the past! Let’s help our heroes fight the battles they can no longer fight alone!
2019 US total deaths by suicide
Average deaths by suicide per day
2019 Veteran deaths by suicide
Average veteran deaths by suicide per day
Veteran Support Services
We need your help! Become a Volunteer.
Annual Events
24K-12K-6K-2M to End Veteran Suicide
When: Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Where: Dominion Raceway, 6501 Dominion Raceway Ave., Thornburg, VA 22580
All registration will come with a medal, shirt, swag bag and more goodies!
Motorcycle Ride to End Veteran Suicide
When: Fall 2020
Where: Dominion Raceway, 6501 Dominion Raceway Ave., Thornburg, VA 22580
Check back with us for details of the upcoming ride!
Interested in sponsoring an upcoming event or helping a veteran with mental health services?
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Please keep the family of the 3 Fort Drum soldiers within your heart. We lost 3 more heroes within 3 short days.
Three Fort Drum soldiers die of suspected suicides within three days
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FORT DRUM — Army officials on Sunday announced the suspected suicides of three 10th Mountain Division soldiers within the last 72 hours.From the Blog
My Son Took His Own Life. Here’s Why You Should Stop Saying ‘Committed Suicide.’
This article is a sad but good read in explaining why we should not say someone “committed suicide” we should say “they died by suicide”. I challenge you all to take the words committed suicide out of your vocabulary after reading this and replace them with died by...
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