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Woodbury company creates app for troubled vets

Quick ReadMilitary Community Awareness has developed a free app -- Operation Reach Out -- to help soldiers and their families deal with potential suicides.

The app includes a 24-hour suicide-prevention hotline.

The app includes a 24-hour suicide-prevention hotline.

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A Woodbury-based educational publishing company is hoping it can play a role in preventing the rising number of suicides in the U.S. military.

The company, Military Community Awareness, which publishes booklets and pamphlets given out for free to military families on such subjects as preparing for and coping with deployment and re-integrating into noncombat areas, has developed a free app...

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