Last Saturday gave us one of those blue-sky October mornings in Loudoun, where neighbors show up for each other. Several hundred of us gathered at One Loudoun for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness walk, and a few of us from Rally4Vets were honored to be there. The rows of empty boots and the children’s handwritten letters stopped us in our tracks—quiet reminders of why this work matters. Prevention isn’t only for experts. It’s for friends, c