ms. bonnie carroll -- to ask ms. bonnie carroll to the podium and she will list mortar board recommendations and then we will open it up to questions. >> a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men and honors -- it honors, the men id remembers. those were the words of president john f. kennedy and they echo here today. general build troy, then commander of the army in alaska, spoke about this honor and courage, when you do a memorial service in a different way for a suicide victim, i think you are adding to the stigmatization of a sold through have a behavioral health problem. you do not mean to, but -- of a soldier who had a behavioral health problem. if you do not need to, but you are making it look like it's his fault. we should be memorializing his service to the nation, his service in combat. he is a volunteer, a member of a free nation that came forward and join our ranks to defend this country and that is what we should be memorializing, not passing judgment on the manner of his