By Matthew Glowicki
Monedria Malone remembers sitting at the Jefferson Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center with her two young nieces a few years back.
They told her their fear: that she wouldn’t be around to see them graduate or find love and get married. Those words stuck.
It had been nearly a decade since the U.S. Army veteran returned home from Iraq more than a little traumatized, she 
said. Drugs and alcohol dulled the memories, eased her anxiety. It also landed her in court more than a dozen times.
But on Tuesday, the 34-year-old stood before a gallery of smiling faces from the Jefferson County criminal justice system as she accepted her diploma from the Veterans Treatment Court. She was all smiles, too.
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