Army veteran Alfredo de los Santos, who lost leg in Afghanistan, combats PTSD through art therapy: 'This is my safe zone'

-- For someone who knows pain as well as Army veteran Alfredo de los Santos, finding any level of protection is a blessing. But finding it in art is a gift.

To understand de los Santos' pain, you need to know his back story. In 2008, as an army sergeant on deployment, he stared death in the face. "That's when I had to learn how to be a human being all over again, I had to learn how to walk, to talk," he said."You can't imagine what I was going through. I was medicated all the time. I was suicidal. I was a mess"

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