17K views · 41 shares | This is the story of one combat veteran’s desperate fight against the self-destructive urges pulsing through a generation of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through a series of interviews, an examination of a thousand pages of medical files and a review of Brandon Ketchum’s extensive journals, USA TODAY gained rare insight into what he called “a war within myself.” bit.ly/war-within | USA TODAY | Facebook