Two Iraq War Veterans receive pro bono HBO treatments for brain injuries

Two Iraq War Veterans receive pro bono HBO treatments for brain injuries
September 19, 2:05 AM
Veterans Affairs Examiner Valerie Halaby

September 17, 2009, Delray Beach, FL

So Why isn’t the military using this technology to help all of our medically challenged veterans? Perhaps that will be the question raised by many Americans in the days ahead as the story of two Iraqi war Veterans continues to make headline news. Purple Heart recipient Adam Burke, a 32 year-old U.S. Army Veteran with nine years of service was once a young man with a bright and shiny future. He excelled in school with a 3.9 grade average possessing the opportunity to become anything he wanted to be, though having chosen a life of service to his country he found himself deployed to Iraq in 2003 where fate would change the course of his dreams.
While traveling along patrol with fellow soldiers in the city of Balad, their humvee hit an IED – Adam was so severely wounded it left him 90% disabled and earned him a Purple Heart, an honor that marked the beginning of a new kind of battle - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) among other conditions. Having lost all short-term memory threatening his intellectual capacity, he also has trouble speaking, is hard to understand, has black outs and vertigo, and wears a GPS device because he gets lost very easily.
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