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Military reckons with the mental wounds of war

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Published Date
July, 2010
Publisher(s)
The Washington Post
Author(s)
Greg Jaffe
Whitney Shefte

This article tells the story of Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordinance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments who now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments.

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