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Retired veteran David Trogdon says it’s been a tough time processing all that is going on with the world, whether it be the happenings in Afghanistan or Hurricane Ida making landfall, and even an earthquake in Haiti.  -- If you need immediate assistance please contact a Crisis Line. You are never alone.

A new program through the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to connect service dogs in training with veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder.

Guy Pilote, a stroke survivor, has trekked more than 1,500 miles of the Appalachian Trail solo

“We’re already short on nurses and now several of my colleagues are really seriously thinking about retiring early, finding another area of nursing, or finding a new career altogether. I feel like we're having some PTSD. We're having depression, anxiety, restlessness.”

Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts among veterans declined significantly in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for those under age 65, a study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found.

"We both believe -- without question -- that your service was meaningful, powerful, and important," Gen. David Berger and Sgt. Major Troy Black wrote in their letter.

As many as 20 veterans out of 100 from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

I grew up hearing family war stories. Both of my grandfathers served in the World War II era, and they recounted noble efforts by the Greatest Generation. My mom, a nurse in the Army Reserve, deployed in support of the first Gulf War; her stories were of swift victory in one of America’s shortest large-scale military conflicts. This year, as the last of U.S. troops began to withdraw from Afghanistan, I became a mother myself. What will I tell my children about my war, America’s longest?

Researchers find that people who only suffered mild infections can be plagued with life-altering and sometimes debilitating cognitive deficits.

A special project is under construction in Broken Arrow called 'The War at Home’ Memorial. City leaders said it will honor veterans whose battles continued through suffering from PTSD. -- For information about treatments for PTSD please visit The Treatment Hub.

The news coming out of Afghanistan has aroused conflicting emotions for military veterans who served there. For In Depth TODAY, Savannah Guthrie spoke with women from Hidden Heroes, a campaign that provides resources to veteran caregivers, about how events overseas are affecting their lives here at home. “We walk on pins and needles,” one says.