Hill April 3, 2024
Brad Dress

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Tonya Oxendine, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for nine hard years before she began her path to recovery.

Her pain reached a point where, one day after leaving her desk at the Pentagon, she was considering driving off a bridge.

“I was at the brink to take my life,” she said, but then “all I could think about was my two sons and I kept thinking about them and thinking about them and I said I cannot leave a legacy of suicide.”

Oxendine turned her car around and sought help, enrolling in a treatment plan through the Wounded Warrior Project and was introduced to a virtual...

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