"EAST BRUNSWICK — Millions of dollars to help prevent suicide among U.S. soldiers and reservists is one step closer to being put in place.

"U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) successfully offered an amendment in Congress to set aside $20 million for efforts to prevent military suicide. The funding is included in the 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, approved by the House last week.

"The funds will support programs like those proposed in the Sgt. Coleman S. Bean Individual Ready Reserve Suicide Prevention Act, a bill that Holt introduced in honor of the East Brunswick resident who took his own life in 2008 at the age of 25 after two tours of duty in Iraq ."

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