If anyone understands the toll of war, it's Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Centers veterans services director Mike Cagle. He sees the aftermath walk through the door every day.

Marine veteran David Smith wasn't sure what to do with himself after coming home from the Iraq War. The only work he could find was a minimum-wage job doing construction. In time, Smith landed a better job and eventually enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Birmingham, Ala.-based nonprofit Support Our Soldiers gave two veterans motorized chairs that have continuous track reminiscent of a tank and are designed to be used on rough terrain. The two veterans — who were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War — said the chairs may open doors they thought closed many years ago.

It’s a rough and tumble sport, but San Antonio wounded warriors have shown they’ve got what it takes to win national honors in sled hockey.

Just two days after getting a new high-tech prosthetic left hand and forearm, Iraq War triple amputee Hilario Bermanis II can pick up an M&M between thumb and forefinger, and he's pretty happy with that.

Brooke Army Medical Center was born amid a wave of construction in San Antonio during the Depression, but its history was rooted in a rustic military during the past century, one whose growth would be fueled by advances in health care and war.

When Mark Smith applied to work for the Georgia State Patrol, he wasn't sure if anyone would want to hire a trooper with one leg. Smith was a Marine serving in Iraq in 2006 when he stepped on a mine that badly mangled his leg. It eventually had to be amputated.

Don Tipton doesn't know exactly where he'll be on the 22nd of each month. But he plans to always be standing in a high-traffic area, holding a sign to show support for his fellow veterans — and to raise awareness of their risk for suicide.

Retired Army Specialist Joel Sigfrid humbly took the keys to his split-level home recently week surrounded by family and friends. Wells Fargo donated the bank-owned home to the nonprofit Military Warriors Support Foundation, which will eventually deed it to Sigfrid. It’s the 160th home that Wells Fargo has donated to help veterans and the fifth one in Minnesota.

Igor Spetic couldn’t actually feel the cotton ball, but in a way he did, thanks to a promising new sensor-laden prosthetic system that ties into the nerves in his arm and shoots a message to his brain.

Post-traumatic stress disorder can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and it is not just combat veterans at risk, doctors said Monday.

Through a program called Operation Proper Exit, Adam Hartswick will visit the region of Afghanistan where a bomb blast tore through his legs on May 14, 2013.

Mariela Meylan was a heartbeat from death a decade ago, her body left mangled in the dust after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Kuwait.

The famous racing Unser family of New Mexico has seen firsthand the power of the sport of scuba diving and its healing effects for the disabled.

May 5 will always be Jessica Clements’ special day. It is her Alive Day, the day she survived a horrible war injury.

The 110,000-square-foot facility, billed as the Wounded Warrior Center: A Living Monument, will be part museum, part recreation and rehabilitation center.

The Kurt Busch that wounded warriors see and talk to on the phone isn’t the Busch that many saw for several years at NASCAR venues.

It's Thursday afternoon in the Military Advanced Training Center gym within the vast Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Everyone who is here was robbed while in uniform. Their limbs, their past lives, are long gone.

Sure, the whole point of the Warrior Games is to speed the physical and emotional recovery of the 260 participants. But then the competitive juices of the wounded, ill, and injured servicemen and women start flowing.

The first female soldier to lose a limb in Iraq, Army veteran Melissa Stockwell has managed to turn a traumatic above-the-knee amputation into an uplifting experience, one that motivates people of all abilities. Earlier this month she declared, “I’m going to be an Ironman.”