who are serving in the military.

I bet it is a very short list.

It happened at home when he fell off an improperly used ladder. The neurologist who took care of him at the hospital where he died said he'd never seen a brain bleed as bad. Had he lived, he would have been a vegetable.

A TBI from a bomb blast probably would be far worse.

It was four years ago last October, but still seems fresh. I'd seen him less than two weeks before he happened after not seeing him because of COVID.

My nephew fell from the second story hit the lower roof and then then the fell to the driveway, The police did not think he would make it. He was airlifted to Boston.

We were lucky he made it, took a lot of time, but he survived. When he goes through airport security, he sets off the metal detectors with the metal plates in his head.

It was and still is painful four years later.

who died 42 years ago.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Dad talked about that when he was in Normandy in 1944. The first time he and his compadres faced concussive injuries, though they didn't know the cause at the time. The break out, Operation Cobra, was to begin with the carpet bombing of German positions in and around St. Lo. Many bombs feel short and hammered the 30th infantry division's 120th regiment, killing and injuring 600+ soldiers including General Leslie McNair. Dad said the best you could do was dive into ditch or foxhole and hope and pray. He said some guys came out of it without a scratch but were never the same afterward. Lots of cases of that mainly from shelling on their way to Germany and the boat ride home. Shell shock that doesn't go away. Perhaps ever. Now we know.

Which wasn’t right!

I don’t know the current policy

https://www.npr.org/2010/09/09/129606127/purple-hearts-elusive-for-traumatic-brain-injuries

This. It’s AWFUL. I am All good these days but it was a journey.

Sadly the Iraq war had us learning more about TBI.

And here we are again.

The news shows today? It’s like they are rehashing the Iraq war talking points. The Iranian people need to stand up!!! That’s what this administration says? After starting this quagmire.

Tough times friends.

I was sitting at a red light and was rear ended. I have mentally been found, by the government, to not be able to work. Before my husband died, there were times when I could not recall his name. I struggle with my dog’s names. My taste has changed. I do not enjoy foods I used to. I had to quite teaching Chinese kids English because I could not do math problems at a k-2 level. I grieve the person I was before the accident. I have found others on the subreddit who also grieve who they were. Overnight, you have a whole new personality. I have five different types of headaches. I have double vision and do much more. It is horrible.

It would be so much easier if I had done something to cause it. A drastic change being my fault would at least, well I am not sure. Sometimes it is hard to find words with a TBI. That is what my concussion specialist says. Anyway, I was stopped at a red light. I did nothing but sit there! It is hard because everything was out of my hands. I cannot imagine what soldiers go through.

No. "They knew what they signed up for."
He doesn't do anything that normal POTUSs do/did. And frankly, he really doesn't give a damn.

He thinks they're "suckers" and "losers," remember?

I wish to hell he would say something about the American casualties incurred in the Iran invasion that would open some MAGA eyes to the fact that he really, truly does not care one tiny bit about dead or wounded soldiers OR anyone else who isn't named Donald John Trump.(Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath.)

Most of us would be more upset about a dog getting hit by a car than he is about the deaths of American troops.

He really gives a damn for no one but himself.
Some slight stirrings for Ivanka, perhaps, but he only sees her as some idealized female version of himself.

They said he was okay. He came home and was supposed to get married. He died the night before his marriage from an aneurism. The government said it was not from the ied.

No one has given a good answer to that question. Oh I have received a lot of dumb answers though.

but then I think of the "Trump mocks reporter with disability" incident from 2015. 2015.

Anyone who voted for him in any of the three elections seemed to think that was an acceptable action by a presidential candidate. Damn them all to Hell.