{"id":813,"date":"2012-11-10T01:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/10\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:27:59","slug":"lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/11\/10\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/3274126153\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate-benefit-claims-by-iraq-afghanistan-veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate-benefit-claims-by-veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/tHuIukFBIdOoad2kPiO-OTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Field records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found&hellip; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate-benefit-claims-by-veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on propublica.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesField records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found&hellip; See &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/11\/10\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":186,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/11\/12\/npr-the-us-army-has-kicked-out-more-than\/","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":0},"title":"npr: The U.S. Army has\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"November 12, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"npr: The U.S. Army has kicked out more than 22,000 soldiers since 2009 for \u201cmisconduct,\u201d after they returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and were diagnosed with mental health disorders and traumatic brain injuries. 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