Veteran supports checks for brain injuries

Sgt. Garrett Anderson is an expert on traumatic brain injury, having endured a bombing in Iraq and a long voyage through the veterans' health care system.

He's all in favor of a new state program that will set up brain-injury checks for all Illinois National Guard soldiers.

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