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U.S. Army Sgt. Ryan Kahlor struggles to maintain his balance while the walls literally move around him at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego where he has been undergoing treatment.

``Basically, I was at the point where I was going to kill myself,’’ Kahlor said of the months that followed his return from Iraq. His self-destructive behavior got him into physical fights and even had his own family scared for their safety.

Story Summary -- When Army Sgt. Ryan Kahlor returned from two combat tours in Iraq, he was a walking billboard for virtually every affliction suffered by today's veterans. In addition to struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic…

Lorene Moore, relaxes with a cigarette while filleting salmon caught by her husband on the Yukon River. A disease, known as 'ich' by locals, manifests itself in the heart, liver, spleen and flesh and makes the meat undesirable to eat. Fish caught…

De'on Miller holds a folded American flag from her son Aaron's coffin while reflected in a memorial with a single name on it that was erected outside the Lea County Courthouse in New Mexico. It was dedicated on June 30th, 2004, the same day the box…

Thousands of people lost their homes during a devastating season of wildfires that swept across Southern California during a particularly active year. Strong winds fueled the fires leaving firefighters helpless to defend large swaths of populated…

Barry Monroe returned to Kruse Feed & Supply for the first time in 52 years after he had heard the store was closing its doors. When he was 15 years old he bought his first car from the store's owner for ten dollars. 'I had to see it one more time…

Fengsuo Zho and Leo Fong are enveloped by pro-China supporters who ran them out of the Olympic torch parade route after they displayed a sign that read 'defend justice' and called China out on its human rights record. The two held their hands in the…

Pema Sinclair and her aunt Eve Sinclair frame a photo of the Dalia Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, during a protest against the Olympic torch's stop in San Francisco, Ca.

Marine 1st Lt. Shaun Miller makes his way through dense poppy fields in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where American troops fought a Taliban stronghold in one of the world's major opium production areas. More U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan…