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Number one in war
CounterPunch by Bill Quigley 05/24/10 Our nation does not respect our soldiers by engaging in permanent war. War is grinding up our children. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost over 5000 US lives... ...
PTSD Nation
John Omaha, Truthout: "Can a nation have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)? Can a diagnosis created to understand the dysregulated behavior of individuals be applied to an entire nation? I argue yes... ...
America's New Wounded Warriors
NOW: "The Pentagon estimates that as many as one in five American soldiers are coming home from war zones with traumatic brain injuries, many of which require round-the-clock attention. But lost in the... ...
52 percent of US soldiers wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan diagnosed with TBI
The Mainichi Daily News: "Some 52 percent of soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan who have come to the US Army's largest hospital for treatment have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries... ...
The brain trauma vets
CounterPunch by Conn Hallinan 06/17/08 A recent study by the General Accounting Office found that, ‘Traumatic brain injury has emerged as the leading injury among U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and... ...
300,000 Vets Have Mental Problems, 320,000 Brain Injuries
Pauline Jelinek for The Associated Press reports, "Some 300,000 US troops are suffering from major depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received... ...
Six Percent of Combat Vets Have Serious Brain Injuries
The Army Times' Rick Maze reports that "six percent of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries,... ...
Scientists: Brain Injuries From War Worse Than Thought
USA Today's Gregg Zoroya says, "Scientists trying to understand traumatic brain injury from bomb blasts are finding the wound more insidious than they once thought." http://www.trut hout.org/docs_2006/092407S .shtml http://freepage. twoday.net/search?q=brain+ injuries ...
Soldier Says He Was Deployed With Head Injury
Army Specialist Paul Thurman stepped forward Friday as one of the 18 soldiers whose cases were cited by six senators in a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a review of alleged improper... ...
A Shock Wave of Brain Injuries
About 1,800 US troops are now suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by penetrating wounds. But neurologists worry that hundreds of thousands more - at least 30 percent of the troops who've... ...