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One of the brave men in a uniform. from world war ii. it reads pauline and theresa we arrived safe, had a good trip, but good and tired. and the card arrived last week at the family's former home where a new family lives and it may have been found by someone outside the postal service and then placed in the mail. and now to a much more serious story concerning america's finest, mike tobin tells us of one soldier's difficult journey back from an all too common 21st century war injury. >> major ben richards tested with 140 iq, and spoke chinese. after hitting by roadside bomb, he has headaches a...

He' a connection and that's a big question for us as well. >> accepting the unknown, the army is still trying to combat the problem, fort campbell has the warrior resiliency center, specializing in restoring motor and cognitive skills of soldiers who suffer a brain injury and doctors pay special attention to the impact. among the soldiers they treat, there is no increase in vior. >> people are on bathway of recovery, using resources and taking action to make their life better and to be stronger are less likely to make a choice. >> however, doctors and soldiers say, there's a stigma in the army...

>> richards was discharged from the army with a traumatic brain injury. he is now trying the experimental treatment of pressurized air in a hyperbaric chamber this because he says the veterans administration was not helping him get back to who he was. >> the line was that this far after your-- after the blast event, there's really no expectation of improvement. the best you can hope for is to find something called a new normal. >> from the abundant use of roadside bombs by enemies in iraq and afghanistan, traumatic brain injury has become a signature wound. one in five combat service members h...