“The Emptiness” and when you can’t stop feeling depressed

"People think we kill without any thought, but they don't know what we live with after"

“When they did that to me, they robbed me of something that I can’t get back”

I hear statements like this all the time. To sit across from fellow combat vets and trauma survivors and hear them say these things, or to be emailed or messaged them on social media from friends I served with…