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Think that these wars are winding down and they're successful enough for us to leave these countries, but in fact, in my ways, the part of the war that's the afterwar is just beginning and is going to go on for a long time. it has to do with not only healing physically, but psychologically as well. >> did you see anything in sticking with them once they came home, anything glaring that the pentagon is not doing? something that stood out that we're looking in providing for them when they get home? >> no, it's unlike other wars. at least there's an attempt underway now to deal with people with p...

It's really a haphazard system. >> one of those other things ties into mental health and you talk about when they get back, there's this feeling of being alone. you come from a war zone, you're back to your home, your family. but they feel isolated. explain that. >> well, there's a truth to war. you've heard it again and again. that eventually, if you're in war, you're just, it's not because of the big mission. you're in it for the guy next to you. but if there's a truth to the afterwar, you're pretty much on your own. these folks come home and the ones with psychological wounds, many of them,...

streets but then tasted freedom. you'll experience all of that in the hour ahead from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january, 2011, the first rumblings of an uprising in cai cairo. crowds begin to gather in the city central square. a revolution has begun. >> egypt's dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubar digs in and the once peaceful protest turned violent. >> this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo's square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of def...