Iraq Vet Dies at Fort Knox

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32 year old Indiana National Guardsman Gerald Cassidy died at Fort Knox five months after returning from Iraq with brain damage from a roadside bomb. An autopsy found he had been dead for hours when he was found and may have been unconscious for days. His mother, Kay McMullen told me her son had received inconsistent care since returning from Iraq, and that he had often been left in lines waiting to see doctors and would forget whether he took his medications due to memory problems.

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