I have felt that it is so hard for veterans to come back, they have been engaged with high responsibility and high risk, high adrenalin, they come back home and if they do not have kind of a job structure to fit into, that transition can become enormously difficult.
Merkley discusses the challenges veterans face transitioning to civilian life.
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