[Mb-civic] Back Home, Disabled Vets Fight Injuries, Red Tape

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WOUNDED VETS

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Back Home, Disabled Vets Fight Injuries, Red Tape 
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Army and VA can't keep up with numbers of badly wounded soldiers and their families awaiting benefits.

By Esther Schrader
Times Staff Writer

August 8 2004

MANASSAS PARK, Va. — The yellow ribbons are faded and fraying outside the neatly appointed house where Jay Briseno lies tethered to a respirator, his nearly motionless, 21-year-old body a shrunken shadow of the young man who last year went marching off to war. 

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