For many people, the holidays can be a stressful time, but particularly for veterans, the period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day can bring about depression, loneliness, anxiety, and isolation.

But there are places veterans can turn to for help. Jim Whaley is the CEO of Mission Roll Call, a nonprofit organization that advocates for veterans through research, polling, and first-person storytelling. Roll Call also provides various resources and opportunities for veterans to connect with other organizations.

Whaley, a retired lieutenant colonel, spent 20 years in the Army, which included deployments overseas and holidays spent away from his family back in the U.S. He had to rely on his military family, many of them going through the same circumstances, to ease the pain of loneliness and separation.

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