coming up, they are to talk to medal of honor recipient staff sergeant leroy petrie about -- petri about mental health. and then later, national geographic environmental writer sarah gibbons will examine the nexus between host: as we get rr next guest we want to show you a portion of sergeant petry's medal of honor ceremony as we get ready to talk to him about the issues of veteran's mental health. here's the ceremony. [video clip] >> the president of the united states of america authorized by an act of congress march 3, 1863 has awarded in the name of congress medal of honor to staff sergeant leroy a. petry. he distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. this was in may 26, 2000 and eight. the weapon squad leader with deck -- delta squad company 75th ranger argument, -- he cleared the p -- he cleared the courtyard of combatants. he and another ranger were engaged and wounded by automatic weapons fire from enemy fighters. still under enemy fire and wounded in both legs, the staff sergeant led the ranger to cover. h

coming up, they are to talk to medal of honor recipient staff sergeant leroy petrie about -- petri about mental health. and then later, national geographic environmental writer sarah gibbons will examine the nexus between host: as we get rr next guest we want to show you a portion of sergeant petry's medal of honor ceremony as we get ready to talk to him about the issues of veteran's mental health. here's the ceremony. [video clip] >> the president of the united states of america authorized by an act of congress march 3, 1863

[end video clip] host: we are back with retired army master sergeant leroy petry who is with us todayo discuss veterans mental health and the efforts to get americans to reach out to veterans in need. good morning. guest: good morning and thank you for having me. host: we were watching your medal of honor ceremony back in 2011. you are a veteran of afghanistan. tell us a little bit about your experience in afghanistan and what you think about how that war ended. guest: my first trip over to afghanistan was in 2002. i made five other trips over there throughout the years, and then i started going with taking wounded veterans back from afghanistan, so my last time over there was in 2018 and 19, somewhere in there, and i got to see the country transform the stuff we were doing was not a lot of times on the news, the fact that we had a civilian population, ones that would come up and say thank you for being here and all that you have dedicated. we have -- we do not ever want you to leave. we built infrastructure, women went to school, all the changes throughout the number of years, that i

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