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Brain injuries: The Agent Orange of the Iraq War

"Make Sure It's Me" is the first production in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's new studio theater space. Photo by John Moore.

  By John Moore Sept. 19, 2012 The Vietnam War had Agent Orange, a lethal herbicidal toxin that exposed up to 5 million Vietnamese people and at least 70,000 soldiers on both sides to cancer as well as nerve, digestive, skin and respiratory disorders. The signature injury of the Iraq War is TBI: Traumatic Brain… Continue reading Brain injuries: The Agent Orange of the Iraq War