Thousands of GIs cope with brain damage
Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2007-09-09 22:36
Story here. On the heels of the college article, note there are no call for equalizing the numbers of brain-injured war veterans so that it's 50/50 male/female. Or adding women to the selective service act. Or anything else like that. Excerpt:
' NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers*.
Thousands of troops* have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.'
* For "soldiers' and "troops", read "men".
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