Walter Reed Army Medical Center

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  • Sticker shock over shell shock

    The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
    By Mark Benjamin August 9, 2005

  • Military injustice

    Iraq vet Jullian Goodrum blasted his superiors for misdeeds that he says cost a soldier his life. His reward: The Army he once loved refused to treat his psychological wounds, then charged him with desertion.
    By Mark Benjamin June 7, 2005

  • Dinner is served

    A new Senate bill requires veterans hospitals to stop charging wounded soldiers for meals.
    By Mark Benjamin May 13, 2005

  • The invisible wounded

    Injured soldiers evacuated to the U.S. never arrive in the light of day -- and the Pentagon has yet to offer a satisfactory explanation why.
    By Mark Benjamin March 8, 2005

  • "Insult to Injury" update

    By Mark Benjamin February 22, 2005

  • Behind the walls of Ward 54

    They're overmedicated, forced to talk about their mothers instead of Iraq, and have to fight for disability pay. Traumatized combat vets say the Army is failing them, and after a year following more than a dozen soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, I believe them.
    By Mark Benjamin February 18, 2005

  • Insult to injury

    Some wounded soldiers back from Iraq are having to pay for meals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Veterans' groups say it's another symptom of fighting a costly war on the cheap.
    By Mark Benjamin January 27, 2005

  • "Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush, you are responsible"

    An open letter from the wife of a soldier who lost his leg in Iraq.
    October 13, 2004

  • Forgotten casualties

    Mentally scarred by the horrors they've endured in Iraq, many returning U.S. soldiers say the military isn't giving them the help they deserve.
    By Lynn Harris September 22, 2004

  • One in 6 soldiers from Iraq war suffer PTSD

    By Stephen W. Stromberg July 1, 2004
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