As President Obama weighs options for sending more troops to Afghanistan, many California communities are already dealing with the aftermath of that war. In San Diego, the VA Medical Center has enrolled 17,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost a third of them are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and nearly 10 percent have traumatic brain injuries. We meet one homeless veteran who served in the Iraq War.
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