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Posted: 2016-05-17T12:13:46Z | Updated: 2017-05-18T09:12:01Z

Delon Beckett is wasted while our cameras are rolling on him. He is tripping around his living room drunk while his three-year-old daughter, Jayla, tries to wrestle. She hits his groin so he pushes her away, then he makes for the staircase. He knocks over some books and settles down in the second floor of his suburban house as his wife, Emme, tries to calm down the kids who are looking up the stairs scared.

"I used to see, you know, a hammer and then all of the sudden I would just think about picking up that hammer and just smashing their brains in," says Beckett, an Iraq war veteran at the center of my documentary, The War Comes Home. "And I'm just like sitting there like ... this is getting ridiculous."

What our cameras captured for our documentary are the sad, damaging effects of the war on some veterans who live with Post-Traumatic Stress like Beckett. About 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan suffers from PTS in a given year, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs . There were about two-and-a-half million U.S. troops sent to those wars.

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