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PICTORIAL OF 2008 OUT OF THE DARKNESS COMMUNITY WALK
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Jerry Altarez
There were over 800 who came for the Walk. Many came individually, with friends or family -- yet, many came with a group. They all wanted to be part of suicide prevention. Several church groups came.
Tom Gilchrist
This was a service club group from a high school.
Tom Gilchrist
One church had its members come together in a bus.
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Before our program, children were given American flags to hand out to celebrate our country and to support our troops.
Gabe Romero
Hundreds came together to listen to the program.
Kitty Katz
And, the speakers prepared themselves by sharing a prayer.
Kitty Katz
Our program was opened by the Portsmouth, Naval Hospital's Color Guard: Rifleman HM3 Matthew Carter, HM2 Gerardo R. Enedam and HM2 Manuel Olivares, who led the team.
Gabe Romero
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Eric Harryman, a news anchor for WAVY TV10 and FOX 43, extended a welcome and emceed the ceremony.
Kitty Katz
For the invocation the Reverend Mark Nieting of Hope Lutheran Church offered prayerful words of reassurance and hope.
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Chris Gilchrist LCSW a family therapist and founder / facilitator of the Hampton Roads Survivors of Suicide Support Group gave information about suicide and the relationship between depression and suicide: the number one cause of suicide is untreated depression - depression is a disease - a treatable disease - therefore suicide can be prevented - lives can be saved.
Gabe Romero
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Richard Wentz, the Executive Director of the Portsmouth YMCA gave a personal testimony of his struggle with suicide and his successful treatment of it.
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Religious columnist Betsy Wright Rhodes, of the Virginia-Pilot gave a compelling talk about her son's history of chronic pain and eventual suicide. She encouraged everyone to take a depression inventory as a tool to identify the symptoms of depression and to seek treatment.
John Falls, a survivor, very respectively read the names of 105 loved ones who have died by suicide.
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
During the program hundreds were touched as their minds were changed with the information they gained about depression and suicide and their hearts were changed with the personal stories they heard.
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Gabe Romero
Jerry Altarez
Jerry Altarez
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Hyunsoo Leo Kim
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