Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.