Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.

Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

I wanted to mention that pretty soon there will be a cover

reveal for my new book coming out in November but I hope you'll consider

pre-ordering today anywhere. It's called Slanted how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate

journalism. Today in the podcast I'm going to talk about an incredibly sad but

remarkable case where the lives of two vets who never met intersected in a

tragic way and exposed wider problems at the VA. Today I'm going to give you some behind the scenes reflections about a story I

investigated regarding the taxpayer-funded bureaucracy where millions of our military vets get

their medical care, the VA. The story that I worked on really began with 28

year old Nicholas Horner. He returned from three tours of duty in Iraq and

Kuwait, home to Pennsylvania and really was a broken soldier. He had traumatic brain

injuries after multiple explosions.

His parents told me that one time he got blown back by a blast in the field and another

time he was in the field in a Humvee when a grenade exploded on him.

Now I've covered on full measure traumatic brain injuries

and how common they are in the troops,

how devastating they can be, how they are often misdiagnosed, mistreated.

A lot of times the vets are just given one kind of medicine on top of another.

It doesn't really help them. They get further and further disenfranchised and

depressed. Experts told me that since 2001 as many as 750,000 US military

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