PTSD and the War on Terror

Some four million Americans have fought in the post-9-11 wars and a 2019 Pew study found that roughly half of those veterans say they had emotionally traumatic or distressing experiences related to their military service. Those mental and moral wounds have contributed to a national epidemic of veteran suicide. Will has come to understand that he wasn't defined by the building that fell on him, Instead he would be defined by what he did in spite of it. It's what we do when our towers fall and who we become when we escape from under them that matters most.