The plight of our
wounded troops
According to Walter Reed Medical Center, two-thirds of our wounded Soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan have sustained a traumatic brain injury, along with their other injuries. And more alarming, U.S. military doctors who have screened returning (not wounded) Soldiers and Marines at four military bases, found that about 10 percent suffered at least a minor brain injury during combat. This injury frequently goes undiagnosed because there is no visible wound. Individuals are sometimes unaware they’ve suffered concussions (a brain injury), which are often the result of bomb blasts. Doctors say they are only now getting to understand the scope of such injuries.
Statistics show that after a traumatic brain injury lives fall apart:
- inability to return to work
- loss of memory
- inability to maintain relationships
- family breakup
- alcohol and drug abuse
- frustration
- anger
- isolation
- heightened risk of a second brain injury
Through your donations to Tickets of Hope™, The 10 in 10 Project™ will give real help and hope to our troops, their families and the other 5.3 million Americans who are living life after brain injury.
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