"Civilians just don't get it!"... and neither do we.

“People just don’t care. They live their sheltered lives and have no idea what we’ve been through!!”

“How can they possibly understand? They’ve never deployed before!”

“I never got counseling because I don’t need some [expletive] who’s never walked in our boots to tell me what I need to do!!”

As someone who works with active duty military, veterans and their family members I hear these statements (and more) on an almost daily basis. As a combat veteran who struggled...