PTSD broke up a veteran’s family. Now his daughters could lose SC college scholarships too.

A lawmaker wants to close a residency loophole to a offer a free college education to more children of South Carolina military veterans. (File photo by Getty Images)

COLUMBIA — A U.S. Army veteran from South Carolina was shot and injured in combat while serving in Afghanistan, earning the man a Purple Heart.

But war took its toll. When he came home to Columbia, to his wife and twin daughters, he was a different man. Doctors diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder…

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