We're devoting the show tonight to our military veterans, according to the US Department for Veterans Affairs.

We're losing at least 19 veterans each day to suicide.

An organization in northeastern Kentucky is working to change that.

Warrior Ridge is a nonprofit dedicated to reconnecting veterans who serve together overseas.

Its founders believe that connection is key to supporting soldiers once they return home.

I mean, as a veteran, you feel so I mean, honored to be able to serve your country.

I mean, it's the best thing I've ever done.

But at the same time, when you come home, it's just such an adjustment.

And it's kind of like when you get out of the military, you're just out.

There is no transition process.

There's nothing.

You just turn your uniform and turn your gear in and you're you're done.

You go home.

So I moved into my grandparents farm and it's a cabin.

It's in the middle of nowhere.

I started inviting my buddies up.

You know, my team.

I went down pretty hard and my brothers were there for me.

So I started inviting them up to the farm, and I saw how beneficial it was for me.

So then I just started inviting other veterans, and then it was just so beneficial.

I was like, Man, this is what these guys need.

The first deployments I was in the invasion 2003 from 2003, and then I was in 2005, 2006 to Iraq and then 2008 to 2009 in Iraq and then Afghanistan.

2013 2014.

You build a brotherhood.

You build a a unity between one another.

So when you when you find out, you get to be with these guys for a few days, it's it's like you haven't seen a close relative, like a close brother in so long.

You can't wait to come up here.

What happens is when nominate one veteran that we know is struggling.

By doing that, we bring their team back together.

They show up on a Thursday.

That's a travel day.

That's when the reconnection actually happens.

That's when they see each other for the first time since I mean, years.

We get them here.

And then Friday we provide obviously all the meals and we hang out at the creek in the summertime and take them kayaking.

And the bonfire happens every evening.

Being together out in nature, disconnected from these cell phones and being together and sitting by that bonfire over there talking.

I mean, we got out of vehicles on that Thursday and we didn't stop talking until Monday afternoon at 12:00.

We want them to stay in contact.

Our only job here is to reconnect these guys and figure out a way where they stay in contact because they have each other's backs.

We know that they proved that in the worst times.

So all we got to do is keep them in contact.

That's it.

And it's so easy.

They leave here.

They are in constant contact.

Every day.

They have a big group thread going right now.

And just about every morning somewhere.

Hey, good morning, brothers.

This and that, you know, And they're there.

A couple of them have told me, hey, it was hard going home and readjusting, going back to work, going to normal life.

But they still have something to look forward to.

Couple days after they left here and one of the guys texted me and he said, Hey, man.

363 days in a wake up until we're back at where you're rich.

Well, there's.

There's most definitely a healing process here.

Get them back together, man.

Keep them in constant contact.

That way, they'll have the support system they need for the rest of their lives.

And we're going to put a dent in this suicide rate.

You watch and see.

Warrior Ridge holds 40 retreats each year.