YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown veterans’ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) support group that has been around for decades is coming to an end, according to members of the group.

“You come here and you understand that your problems are not faced alone, that these people have faced the same problems that you have, and we learn from each other,” said Dan Brown, a retired Army First Sergeant and member of the support group since 1997. “The problem that we're facing now is that the VA wants to do away with a program that's working for them.”

Brown told 21 News the Carl Nunziato Veterans Affairs Clinic informed the group a few months ago that it would no longer be able to host their weekly sessions because of a new infusion clinic taking over their meeting space. The last meeting, Brown sai

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