While Veterans Day has come and gone, millions of veterans around the country are living with the scars of war every single day.
On Tuesday, psychologist Dr. Amanda Flowers gave a presentation on veterans’ mental health at the Athens Public Library on behalf of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI).
Flowers has firsthand experience of the mental health challenges faced by veterans: her father was a Marine who served two tours of duty in Vietnam and passed away from lung cancer as a result of exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange…