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Military Fails to List Soldier's Death as Combat-Related

By Roger Bybee
Isthmus | May 19, 2008
According to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, between 150,000 and 300,000 U.S. troops have suffered traumatic brain injury, which the group labels "the signature injury of the war." James McDonald was one of them, and yet the military has thus far refused to classify his death as combat-related.
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