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Traumatic brain injury

Dan Crawford | October 6, 2010 9:00 am

The Traumatic brain injury series in the Washington Post offers timely information on the thinking on this issue.

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  • Nancy Ortiz says:
    October 8, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    Rdan–I kept waiting for someone to comment. But, apparently, this subject interests only you and me. I have been thinking that as jobs programs go, the military has an enormous shortcoming. It’s bad enough that you can lose your life or an arm or leg. Arms, legs and lives have a determinable value to the troopers’ and their survivors. But, how do we determine how to make a soldier whole who suffers a brain injury that doesn’t kill him/her but makes living hell?

    These colonial wars are heavily reliant on the kind of weapons which cause massive burns, blindness, brain injuries, amputations and a variety of invisible neurological injuries. People get hurt in their teens and can live into their 70’s.  It’s not possible to repay them the cost of their service. Such wars seem to me to be morally wrong. The Europeans have learned their lesson. We are apparently unable to learn ours. NancyO

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