A British Army veteran is walking across the United States to bring awareness to combat-related post traumatic stress disorder and as a fundraiser for Wounded Warrior Project.  Neil Davis started in Cape Cod and plans to walk all the way to California.  Last night, Davis stopped in Danbury for the night.  He walked 31 miles from Thomaston, through Southbury and Newtown and municipalities in between. 

Davis plans to walk mostly along Route 6 and Route 66 for the more than 3,000 mile trek spanning 15 states.  He served two decades in the army and worked as a contractor for the U-S Defense Department in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Davis said on his Facebook page that he's lost many friends along the way--those who never made it home and those who did come home, but had slipped into some dark times.

He cited an organization in the UK called Combat Stress which deals exclusively with veterans mental health. The youngest soldier treated is 19, the oldest is 101. On average, he was told it takes a soldier 13 years to come forward to seek help.

Davis joked that he needed to tell the US Embassy in London his route because "they will definitely want to know the route as they can't have some mad Scotsman wandering through their country and not know where he is :-)".

His mission is simple: he wants to help those that need help but maybe too embarrassed or ashamed to ask for it.  He ended by saying that the men and women who did make it home, but still find themselves in combat every day, are not broken - just damaged.