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May 11, 2008

Number of disabled vets on the rise

MSNBC.com: Health - Posted: May 11th, 2008, 2:47pm EDT

** FILE ** In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, Army. Sgt. Brandon Adam, Sandpoint, Idaho, who lost both his legs while serving in Baghdad in May 2007, pauses from exercises while waiting for President Bush to visit the physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the  Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America’s vets shrinks.


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