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Tonya Oxendine, United States Army Command Sergeant Major, Retired, joined the military for safety and security but found much of the same trauma she faced at home.

Meeting many others along the 2,700-mile trek was a trust-building exercise and a way to offer people an opportunity to help and support veterans once home from combat.

Army Veteran Tom Voss learned that meditation is a meaningful and effective way to take time to be with yourself while also recognizing and honoring what's going on in your spirit, brain, and body.

Army Veteran Tom Voss shares a painful example of how moral injury can happen.

"The trek helped me go through this big, heavy basket of rocks I had been carrying around, understand why it was weighing me down, and how to deal with each rock — each experience, each loss — one at a time.," he says.

Veteran Paul Downs talks about spending time living in the present. No more, "It will be better when..." or "It will be easier when..." and the past can't be changed.