6.24.2008

The Human Cost of War

"I was feeling sick, really weak, and I had blood in my urine and I didn't know what was going on, and I went to the doctor at Walter Reed Army Hospital and they were telling me it was combat fatigue, you're just tired, you just need to relax and you'll be fine. And I said, No, it's more than that, you know, I had rashes on my back, a lot of rashes on my back. I was so weak I couldn't stand up straight." -- Anthony Phillip

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