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CHALLENGES 2007-2008: Wounded Vets Trade One Hell for Another
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Last year, the United States woke up to the reality of hundreds of thousands of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan - and began to grapple with what to do about it.
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POLITICS: Canada Shuts Doors to U.S. War Resisters
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Two U.S. Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases.
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BOOKS-US/IRAQ: Outrage in a Time of Apathy
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it.
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RIGHTS-US: Case Crumbles Against Officer Who Refused Iraq
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCSICO - First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq, won what his backers are calling a "huge victory" in court Thursday.
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POLITICS-US: Homeless Vets Play the Waiting Game
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Army Specialist James Eggemeyer injured himself before he even set foot in Iraq, jumping out of a C-130 gunship during training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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HEALTH-US: Soldier's Death Highlights Medical Staff Shortages
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - On Sep. 19, Kay McMullen had the last conversation she ever would with her son, Gerald Cassidy, or G.J., as he was known to his family and friends.
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HEALTH-US: Brain Trauma the "Signature Injury" For Iraq Vets
By Aaron Glantz
WASHINGTON - On Mar. 19, 2004 Corporal Justin Bunce was on patrol in the Iraqi city of Husayba on the Syrian border when a bomb exploded in the wall of a cemetery.
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HEALTH-US: Soldier's Tragic Suicide Just One of Dozens
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - Dane and April Somdahl own the Alien Art tattoo parlor on Camp Lejeune Boulevard - just outside the sprawling Marine Corps base of the same name in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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POLITICS-US: Bush Appointee Campaigns for Evangelicals
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the U.S. federal government agency that doles out benefits to disabled veterans is under fire for saying Bible study is "more important than doing [my] job."
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HEALTH-US: Vets Sue Gov't for "Shameful Failures"
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - Two veterans' groups sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in federal court in San Francisco Monday for alleged "shameful failures" to help tens of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
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HEALTH-US: Troubled Soldier Gets Demoted, Not Treated
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - Cody Miranda joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was 17 years old. He loved the military and hoped to spend his entire career in the service.
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Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and other media outlets. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service.

Aaron is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio's national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. In the course of his work he has also reported from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, France, and Denmark.

Before becoming an international reporter, Aaron served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica's flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000.

A native of San Francisco, he recently returned from a four month reporting trip to Hanoi.
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