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Or friends and the fireworks going off or just the loud noises. and he would go into a full-fledge panic attack. i mean, this is devastating. i have to live with a lot of conditions i didnt think i would really have to live with. >> maybe some of them have pts. maybe some of them love somebody who has pts. what is your message to them. >> i think my message would be what clay would say and what he did. tell somebody. be open about it. forget about the sigma. there is no stigma. you have an injur...

That was fall of 2009. clay died march of 2011 and, five weeks later, i get a letter, addressed to me, regarding his disability appeal, which is now complete. and his pts grading is 100%. >> do you see him as a casualty of war as surely as if he had been killed in iraq by the enemy? >> absolutely. >> you do? >> absolutely. i said that back in april of 2011 in an interview. someone asked me, ironically, from cnn, same question. theres no doubt in my mind. >> because you knew him before he went to...

Applicant based on this. >> the a.d.a. means the americans with disabilities act which protects vets since 2009 with ptsd. starts at the job application procedures, hiring advancement, employee compensation and job training are covered under all of those? >> absolutely. we need to make certain this doesnt just apply to the application process or preemployment process. these protections are throughout all employment. theres two prongs. theres either discrimination based on the actual disability o...

Cha charm. >> hes still in isolation, right? how do you feel that he is physically and emotionally because he is dealing with a significant pts? >> absolutely. he was in san diego and diagnosed with ptsd and, yes, hes not able to get therapy for his ptsd in mexico because they are not equipped to handle foreign combat associated ptsd. i will tell that you a pastor still visits him twice a week so he does get inspiration from his faith. however, legitimate psychological care is denied in the mexi...

Accident. he was in a hard way before all of this. he told me of abuses so terrible that while hogtied to a prison bed, he used his one free hand to attempt suicide with a shattered lightbulb. >> i had one hand above my head. not both, just one. i was laying on a bed. one leg was on one opposite wall and the other on the other wall above my head maybe 2 feet. yes, i did, when i got the opportunity, i decided to stab myself in the neck with a lightbulb. >> why? >> i was paranoid. i had been abuse...

Everything to have him step aside but it is the right thing to do. >> that may be the case. and i -- in some ways i personally reserve judgment because i feel like i dont know what the underlying problem is yet. lets say shinseki comes out tomorrow and resigns, 8:30 in the morning hes scheduled to give a talk. lets say he resigns. whats the day two plan of attack here? i mean, i still dont understand what the problem is that has led apparently to 42 different facilities cooking the books because...

Its not going to solve everything to have him step aside but it is the right thing to do. >> that may be the case. and i -- in some ways i personally reserve judgment because i feel like i dont know what the underlying problem is yet. lets say shinseki comes out tomorrow and resigns, 8:30 in the morning hes scheduled to give a talk. lets say he resigns. whats the day two plan of attack here? i mean, i still dont understand what the problem is that has led apparently to 42 different facilities co...

For almost two months now, a u.s. marine and afghan war veteran has been held in a prison in tijuana, mexico. today, he has a hearing before a judge. hes asking to be released. >> yeah, 25-year-old andrew says he accidentally crossed into mexico with three perm firearms on his way to meet friends in southern california. i had a chance to speak with his mother earlier today. he did dial 911 when he realized that he was where he didnt want to be. and he called 911 to help him get back to the borde...

Veteran will, obviously, ptsd. those things there they just hurt so much because you know, some people have issues before they come n im no doctor but you know, i dealt with pts. i know other brother whos have done that. and its not about wanting to hurt other people. its a guilt feeling of what happened of missing your brothers and trying to make sense of what actions are that youre saying. you go, you watch people die. youre under stress of knowing you can lose your life in a mement. its a nat...

Antonio. the guerreros are one of many families with a free home away from home thanks to operation home front which operates temporary housing for military families who are struggling to make ends meet. >> every single one of the veterans dealing with some kind pts issue id say probably 20, 25% have some form of traumatic brain injury. >> reporter: sergeant daniel guerrero suffers from all of that. he was deployed three times, twice to iraq and once to afghanistan where he was shot. >> when i f...