Read the sentence from "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty." Tens of thousands of men and women have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with permanent physical handicaps and deep emotional scars—wounds they will be coping with for the rest of their lives.

What is the connotative meaning of the word scars as it is used in this sentence?

cuts

trauma

disabilities

weakness

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