Federal data show the suicide rate among veterans has risen over the last decade . In 2007, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs approached this problem with a 24-hour call center in upstate New York. As GPB’s Sean Powers reports, the VA recently expanded that service with a second hotline in Atlanta . We continued our conversation about veterans issues with Iraq War veteran Chris Dorsey , who has a farm in Lumpkin County. Dorsey has had his own problems with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder