If you or someone you love served in the military – especially during wartime – your experiences during the final months of life may be decidedly different than those who didn’t serve. Traumatic events, injuries, toxic agents and extreme environments are just some of the factors that can have lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects on our nation’s veterans. Adding to those challenges, many veterans returned from duty and simply didn’t talk about what they did or saw, perhaps bottling up feelings of anger, guilt and other emotions that can surface at the end of life.