ESPN produced this emotional six-minute video, a compilation featuring U.S. servicemen and women returning to their families.
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As a result of the high unemployment rates for soldiers returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Barack Obama proposed tax credits and training programs to help thousands of US service members find jobs in the weak U.S. economy.
In this CNN segment, two Army generals, Brig. General Gary S. Patton and Gen. Carter Ham shared their experiences with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the hopes of convincing other soldiers to come forward and be treated.
Sgt. Brendan O'Bryne talks about the process of coming home from war, PTSD and its prevention.
In September 2008, AP photojournalist Rick Bowmer documented the moment when U.S. Army Sergeant Jose Regalado returned home from Iraq and saw his daughter for the first time. Just two months later, Sgt. Regalado was killed, along with several other members of his unit, when a uniformed Iraqi soldier approached the group of Americans and opened fire.
Former Navy Seal Chris Kyle, widely recognized as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, suggests that the general public has little capacity for truly understanding war.
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell speaks at the 2013 Hero Summit, suggesting that “Monday morning quarterbacks” stop critiquing the military and “stay out of our way.”.
Marine Lance Corporal Travis Williams lost his entire squad in an explosion in Iraq in August 2005. This Wall Street Journal report focuses on how Williams' civilian career is helping him cope with that memories.
A speech given by former US soldier and Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner in 2009.
Sgt. Daniel Somers served in an intelligence unit during the Iraq War, where he ran 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee. He returned from Iraq in 2007, and was subsequently diagnosed with PTSD, a brain injury, Gulf War syndrome, fibromyalgia and other medical problems in 2008. He took his own life in May 2013.
