{"id":8709,"date":"2010-09-09T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/09\/why-does-the-us-military-not-c\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T13:44:05","slug":"why-does-the-us-military-not-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/why-does-the-us-military-not-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the US military not consider a brain injury to be an injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army honors soldiers wounded or killed in combat with the Purple Heart, a powerful symbol designed to recognize their sacrifice and service.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Army commanders have routinely denied Purple Hearts to soldiers who have sustained concussions in Iraq, despite regulations that make such wounds eligible for the medal, an investigation by NPR and ProPublica has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"overflow: hidden; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0\" width=\"322\" height=\"258\" scrollbars=\"none\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/v\/?id=frol02s432fqf63&#038;w=322&#038;h=258\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army honors soldiers wounded or killed in combat with the Purple Heart, a powerful symbol designed to recognize their sacrifice and service. Yet Army commanders have routinely denied Purple Hearts to soldiers who have sustained concussions in Iraq, despite regulations that make such wounds eligible for the medal, an investigation by NPR and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/why-does-the-us-military-not-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why does the US military not consider a brain injury to be an injury?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2gt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}