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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 11:20 PM
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The battle after the battle
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5012220p-4574442c.html

"The day before his 22nd birthday, a bomb hanging from a tree along a road near Fallujah exploded above Rory Dunn’s Humvee.

Dunn’s forehead was crushed from ear to ear, leaving his brain exposed. His right eye was destroyed by shrapnel; the left eye nearly so. His hearing was severely damaged.

...Within minutes of the May 2004 explosion, he was strapped on a stretcher and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Baghdad – the first step in his 10-month struggle to recover.

Yet, even as Dunn fought to overcome his traumatic brain injury and other wounds, his mother, Cynthia Lefever, fought the Army to ensure her son continued to receive critical care from Army specialists. Lefever said the Army tried to pressure her son into accepting a discharge before he was ready – pressure other severely wounded soldiers say they’ve experienced, too."

Premature discharge before war-induced medical treatment is completed? Why do our servicepeople deserve that?
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 11:22 PM
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1. It's A Scam -- Pure And Simple
Sorry so few can see it.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 11:26 PM
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2. What bothers me more are those injuries
Most of them, like head injuries and amputations are permanently life-altering. And we haven't even explored the PTSD problems coming our way...
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 11:37 PM
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3. Send them into
harm way based on lie. Try cut cost using pressure. How many has been screwed. Why no MSM taking this up.
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