Jorge Reyes served 10 years in the US Army including a tour as a machine-gunner in an infantry unit in Iraq. But when he returned home and tried to go to college, he had trouble. During his decade in the service no one had ever taught him how to use a computer. Attn: Radio Stations - Audio clip contains an obscenity.

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Dr. Gene Bolles has spent 30 years repairing bodies broken by disease, accidents and brutality. Drafted into the military during the Vietnam War, the Colorado neurosurgeon served for two years as a flight surgeon, witnessing the suffering of both U.S. military personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Yet, despite his extensive experience with war, nothing has shaken him up more than the 26 months he spent working at Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany treating U.S. soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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After serving as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison, Joshua Casteel traveled to the Vatican where he was given an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Casteel argued for a firmer antiwar stance from the Catholic Church. Church leaders, he says, should actively encourage soldiers to become conscientious objectors when political leaders wage an unjust war.

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Philippe Louis Jean is a non-citizen Marine who was among the first battalions to roll into Iraq when the war was declared. On his return, this young Haitian-American was arrested by immigration authorities and spent 10 months in prison as the government tried to deport him to Haiti, a country he left when he was 5.

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When Patrick Resta returned from a tour in Iraq, his wife Melissa hardly recognized him. He was always angry. He couldn’t sleep. He wouldn’t go to the grocery store – it was too crowded. At Christmas time, he didn’t want to spend any time with her. Now, Patrick goes to the VA for treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the couple takes life “one day at a time.”

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Army medic Augustin Aguayo refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time. He said during basic training he realized that he could never use his gun to kill anyone. But the military turned down his application to become a conscientious objector and when he turned himself in at Fort Irwin in California they shackled him and flew him back to Germany - where he spent six months in a US military prison.

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Last Christmas, Army Reservist James Dean barricaded himself in his father's farm-house with several weapons and threatened to kill himself. Authorities responded by cordoning off the house and fired tear gas inside. They brought in armored vehicles and blew a hole in the right side of the house. Just past midnight on Dec. 26, a state police sharpshooter shot Jamie Dean dead.

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Marine Corps reservist Todd Bowers was half-way through his degree in Middle Eastern Studies at George Washington University when the Pentagon pulled him out of school and sent him on two combat tours to Iraq. When he returned, he found his student loans had been sent to collection ... and that wasn't his only problem.

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Jeff Key had already come out as gay to his friends and family, graduated with a degree in theater, and moved from Alabama to Los Angeles when - at age 34 - he decided to join the Marine Corps. He was excited to defend the Constitution and “kick some ass,” but was outraged when he learned, after a tour in Iraq, that there were no weapons of mass destruction. So he came out as gay on CNN and the Marine Corps expelled him under their “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy.

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Staff Sergeant Michael Hall saw so many people die in Iraq he felt guilty about coming home alive. To dull the pain, he started doing, then dealing, methamphetamines. Within two years he was homeless – one of 400,000 homeless vets who sleep on America's streets every year.

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