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Unbroken, Wounded Warriors Overcome Injury to Find New Strength
By Mandy Oaklander, Erik Tanner (photography) — 2015
More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.
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