AUSTIN, Texas - This month, The Mission Continues, a veteran's volunteer group, embarked on a day of service to honor 9/11 by giving back to their community.

Volunteers spent a day beautifying the campus at Casey Elementary School. They did work like picking up trash, painting picnic tables and adding garden boxes.

"The Mission Continues is a veteran service-led organization that gives veterans the power… to work within their community when they transition from military service," said Kris Vandenberg, platoon leader of the Austin chapter of The Mission Continues.

Vandenberg served in the Army for 12 years, but he says transitioning back to civilian life was a challenge.

"It was a little bit of a struggle to get reacquainted and re-acclimated to civilian life from military service," s

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