On the eve of Veterans Day, a Mounds View, Minnesota, man is receiving a welcome gift.

"I was deployed over to Afghanistan, northeast Syria and then worked for the U.S. embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during COVID," Tanner Wilde said.

Wilde is proud of serving his country. He put his life on the line during his deployments, but when he returned home, a new battle was waiting for him.

"I contemplated and began to plan my own suicide because I was in an immense amount of pain after my third traumatic brain injury, which led to my discharge from the military," Wilde said.

Mental health was a serious struggle until about two years ago, when, at the urging of his wife, Wilde got help and agreed to talk to someone.

"When you are in it, you're riding it. But that doesn't have to be the end of

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