Iraq Vets Cope With Brain Damage

by 127001 | September 9, 2007 at 10:48 pm

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers.

Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.

Iraq Vets and Traumatic Brain Injury...

So many people are clueless about brain injury itself, and the aftereffects last a lifetime and can even get worse as you age.

What are our vets going to do when they come home and not only have trouble getting help because of this injury, but non-acceptance by a society that will probably label them "mentally ill" or crazy. Brain Injury is not a mental illness, but the uneducated refuse to accept that.

Americans are at home hitting the malls on weekends while these men and women are risking and receiving lifetime-affecting injuries.

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