Nick Stefanovic Talks About The Pain of War and the Helping Hand That Saved Him from a Downward Spiral of Crime
By Lindsay Goldwert
Nick Stefanovic is one former soldier who has benefitted from a special court designed to give veterans who commit nonviolent crimes a second chance, Monday, March 1, 2010. (CBS)
(CBS) He fought at the battle of Nasariyah in Iraq and along the Pakistani border in Afghanistan, but Nick Stefanovic's toughest battle was coming home.
"The trauma after the war was almost worse than the trauma during the war was," he told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.
He tried to pick up where he'd left off in college, but couldn't.
"I had nightmares, anxiety, panic. I didn't know why it was happening," he said. "I thought for a second that I had gone insane."
His service with the Marines had alienated him from normal, everyday life.
"I knew that nobody was going to be able to help me because nobody was going to be able to understand what was happening to me," he said. "I think that was the worst feeling."
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