"As the service members return home and as the wars wind down, the mental trauma of war remains and there is an urgent need to make sure every service member receives a psychological evaluation upon returning home, and whenever a service member reaches out for help, the service member needs to receive it immediately, " he said.

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Ms. ANN WHEAT (Co-founder, Lost Boys Center): While one would think that maybe things would continue to get easier, the reality that we've all had to come to grips with are those long-term effects of living life as a child survivor of war, all the devastation and trauma of having your family--everything familiar to you: your culture, your way of life, all taken away from you.

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He has plenty of experience in trauma, but as a veteran of the Iraq War, he's also had plenty of experience with explosions.

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Set in 1921, The Awakening is a portrait of England in the grip of post-war trauma.

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People from all zones of the country, assembled by diverse motives and hurt by the same scrouge: lack of opportunity and trauma brought about by war.

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So many of them war veterans whose bravery as well as past trauma have been buried while daily life consumes us.

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Flaherty says that since the start of the Iraq war, doctors have learned key lessons in trauma care.

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And this season even the television show Homeland took the opportunity to address, through the wife of a former prisoner of war, the totally unanticipated emotional consequences resulting from the trauma that combat veterans bring back from the field.

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The hospital had finished trauma drills before with mannequins, and several of the doctors, including Dr. Velmahos, have worked in war-torn countries.

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