For some vets, the Iraq war will never end

For some vets, the Iraq war will never end
February 29, 2012
By David Martin
(CBS News) If you think the Iraq war is over, you haven't met Casey Owens. We first met him in 2004 after a roadside bomb had torn off both his legs. We caught up with him again in 2009 undergoing a pressurized oxygen treatment in an effort to cure his blinding headaches. When he walked out of that clinic, he seemed ready to get on with his life.

"Free at last," Owens said.

However, one of his prosthetic legs was giving him trouble, and when we found him again in Denver he was using a wheelchair. Owens no longer thought he would be free.

"I really don't think I'll ever be free. I don't think the burden of war is ever gone," Owens said.

He had made it out of the ICU and learned to walk again but he still suffered from traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress. When he tried to get back to a normal life by going to college, it didn't work.
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