KevinMD February 16, 2024
L. Joseph Parker, MD

Since the Civil War, there have been seventy-four wars and conflicts America has fought in. But as bad as previous wars had been, there has never been anything in American history like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While America’s direct intervention against Germany and Japan lasted less than five years, the war on terror went on for decades. Extended time in extreme circumstances will cause extreme adaptations in the human body and mind, and many of these are not conducive to life at peace. Then there was radioactive dust suspended in the air and inhaled by our troops as they advanced past tanks taken out by spent uranium rounds, burning toxic chemical pits that somehow no one realized was bad...

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