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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 didn't 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 injury, a mental injury that needs to be treated and taken care of just as if you had a broken arm, brok...

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. there's no doubt in my mind. >> because you knew him before he went to war. >> absolutely sbl you knew him after war? >> his war experience is why he died. the lack of t...

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 doesn't just apply to the application process or preemployment process. these protections are throughout all employment. there's two prongs. there's either discrimination based on the actual disability or perceived disability by the employer. >> sp companies are getting it right. wal-mart hired 42,0...

Cha charm. >> he's 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, he's 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 mexican prison system because they are not capable of providing that type of therapy. >> now, assuming...

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 abused. i was thinking they were going to come and abuse me more and torture me and get information about...