Web site helps veterans reconnect after combat

Web site helps veterans reconnect after combat
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 6:15 PM EST

Posted by Sarah Harlan - email

(NBC) - A new web site is helping veterans re-connect after combat.

It's also helping servicemen and women recover from post traumatic stress disorder.

Retired Marine Matthew Brown will never forget the moment he was shot by a sniper while fighting in Fallujah.

"They weren't really sure where I was shot because there was blood everywhere," Brown said. "Sorry, little difficult to talk about sometimes."

There were operations, there were months of rehab.

He learned to walk again but there was something else that wasn't right.

Brown had post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

"What we know is that a third of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from some type of combat-stress injury," Tom Tarantino with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said.
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