Rick Holtz is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read his column each week in the newspaper and on the website.
I nearly lost him and I never knew it.
Over the weekend I found out that a friend from my youth group growing up had been struggling with depression. He shared in a Facebook post how he fought the battle by himself, fell into a bottle and almost took his life last year.
It broke my heart.
This is someone that I was friends with 20 years ago and over the years we have let life and distance come betwee…