Part time soldiers injured, but not home yet (16,000)

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Sat Oct-23-04 09:20 AM
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Part time soldiers injured, but not home yet (16,000)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/national/23injured.html?th

"Having him in Iraq was hard enough. When he got hurt, I said, 'well, at least he can come home now, and get better here with us.' But it's this strange thing. He came home, but he's not home at all."
- PENNY ELLIOTT, whose husband, a staff sergeant in the National Guard, is
being treated for an injury he received serving in Iraq.

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