Comments on: The killing fields of Iraq http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/09/17/the-killing-fields-of-iraq/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/09/17/the-killing-fields-of-iraq/#comment-17714 Erich Vieth Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:08:15 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1598#comment-17714 as many as 5.3 million Americans are living with a permanent disability resulting from a brain injury, a staggering figure that’s ballooning in part because of a steady stream of brain-damaged veterans coming back from the war in Iraq (see Mason’s March 2007 DISCOVER article, “Dead Men Walking”). As Mason writes, “The global war on terror has already yielded more than ten thousand survivable traumatic brain injuries to American troops.” http://discovermagazine.com/2007/mar/dead-men-walking/?searchterm=dead%20men%20walking as many as 5.3 million Americans are living with a permanent disability resulting from a brain injury, a staggering figure that’s ballooning in part because of a steady stream of brain-damaged veterans coming back from the war in Iraq (see Mason’s March 2007 DISCOVER article, “Dead Men Walking”). As Mason writes, “The global war on terror has already yielded more than ten thousand survivable traumatic brain injuries to American troops.”

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