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Wounded veteran turns passion for motorcycles into business

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Well in this tough economy finding a job can -- all but impossible and it can be even more difficult if you're a wounded war veteran.

Elizabeth Pratt has more.

I am a little servicemen and women who enlisted after 9/11 actually have the highest unemployment rate of all veterans.

But young one man who we -- turned his passion into a business.

Army specialist who -- -- -- blew out his knee in the line of duty in Iraq.

The resulting trauma left him with PT SD when I came -- felt lost and I really didn't.

Nowhere off it -- -- -- his passion for motorcycles.

Kept him going through multiple surgeries and job projections there are a lot of employers who are reluctant.

How are a veteran who requires need to go to the doctor Walston was determined not to lose his battle with depression.

With his job prospects written -- took command of his future turning its past.

You can look profession.

Opening up motorcycle shop with two other veterans.

They understand me and care relate war on -- from.

Walston is among the troubling statistics in the post 9/11 world the unemployment rate for veterans is a a whopping 12%.

Far higher than the national average of 8% said for Walston.

Running his own business is this sort of personal freedom he fought for in the first place.

-- -- and I -- -- our country but to be able to.

Do bad and now come home and in joy when idea fight for it really feels good in Atlanta Elizabeth grant Fox News.