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Virtual Penguins A Prescription for Pain?
from NPR
For troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the deepest physical pain often comes much later--weeks, or even months, after the incident. That was the case for Sam Brown, whose story appears in this month's GQ magazine.
Brown graduated from West Point in 2006. In the late summer of 2008, he was deployed to southern Afghanistan to lead a platoon. He did security for base construction and made sure the local villagers had enough food, water, and medicine. It was hot, often mind-numbingly dull, and dusty.
"We called it moon dust," Brown tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. "It was just this kind of powdery dust that stuck to everything. No access to showers for a couple of weeks, you know, at a time, and there were days when it peaked out at close to 130 degrees." Before he deployed, Brown ran through a series of scenarios in his mind, scenes of what might happen to him in Afghanistan.
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