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Wounded Service Research Paper

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If anyone has ever looked into the eyes of a wounded service member one will tell you. You will see more than just wounds on flesh. I know I did. Being a young Navy corpsman I treated and cared for many wounded sailors and marines coming back from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune. The wounds I saw were mostly from IED blasts that would pepper the individual with shrapnel with the occasional broken bones. These types of wounds range from minor castings and splints to major surgeries. Caring and treating the physical wounds was not a problem. I was good at it. It was the wounds that you could not see that made caring for these young individuals much more humbling. I have a distinct memory, where I am treating a

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