Veteran's death spurs creation of a peer mentor program to curb suicide
Bonnie Walton needed someone who would understand but wasn't too close. She needed someone who could help her find a way to tell her four sons that their father had killed himself. Her husband, Brian Walton, seemed to have been on the right track. He was in a therapeutic military-family retreat. He had been seen at the Veteran Affairs hospital. He had a therapist and he had medication.