As an Army Ranger, Sgt. Nick Irving earned the nickname "The Reaper" while serving as a sniper in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he struggled to come to terms with civilian life once he left the military.

Edie Meeks joined the Army Nurses Corps in 1968 and deployed to Vietnam, but her year treating wounded soldiers left her bitter about the war and conflicted about her service in the Army.

Now in his 90s, World War II veteran Frank DeVita recalls his experience as a teenager in the Coast Guard, serving on a landing craft transporting infantry to invade Omaha Beach on the coast of Nazi-occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson was traveling in a convoy in Iraq in 2003 when her vehicle was attacked. Iraqi forces killed 11 soldiers in her company and captured six, including Johnson. She was held for 22 days, becoming the first Black female prisoner of war in American history.