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Monday, June 01, 2009

By Sandra Basu | U.S. Medicine, June 2009
Used with permission from U.S. Medicine

More support for the family caregivers of those injured in war is needed, a panel of wounded servicemembers and family memb

ers told Congress. Dealing with severe injury and trauma is not easy,” Army Lt. Col. Gregory Gadson, an amputee told a Senate subcommittee. “When we consider the myriad of injuries, as well as the unfamiliarity a typical family has in dealing with an injured servicemember, it is easy to understand how difficult a task it is for recovery.”

Parents feel their son’s stress disorder

Tim Kahlor comforted his son, Ryan, during a Las Vegas Veterans Day parade. Ryan’s experience with post-traumatic stress disorder has turned his father into an antiwar activist. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles

Times) By David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times / December 21, 2008