Caring for Iraq Veterans Series: First in a Series of Occasional Editorials
The Washington Times › March 16, 2006
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The first in a series of occasional editorials on wounded veterans returning from Iraq.
It's hard to imagine that a Veterans Administration nursing home catering largely to septuagenerians would be the ideal place for a severely wounded 30-year-old Iraq vet to recuperate. But sadly, this happens, according to Jeremy Chwat, spokesman for the Wounded Warriors Project. That's because the system that the Veterans Administration has developed to care for severely wounded Iraq veterans - through no readily apparent fault of the VA itself - is still being built.See the full content of this document
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Caring for Iraq Veterans Series: First in a Series of Occasional Editorials
According to VA figures, about two-thirds of the 17,004 service members injured in Iraq as of mid-March suffered blasts from improvised-explosive devices, the hallmark ...
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